swanship
swanship noun: a ship shaped like a swan.
Noun (1)
swanship (plural swanships)
- A ship shaped like a swan.
- "That's what I feel," replied Jasper, relieved, then chuckled to see the sleek, bewhiskered head of a seal pop out of the water by the swanship.1979, Lorna Baxter, The eggchild, Dutton Juvenile, →ISBN
- He might have been drowned, along with fat Basil, that arrogant merchant, when the swanship broke apart. Indeed, he thought, in all of his wanderings since his birth in the Carthaginian hills, he had rarely been far from death.1983, Dikkon Eberhart, Paradise: A Novel, Stemmer House Pub, page 14
Noun (2)
swanship (uncountable)
- The status of being a swan; swanhood, swanness.
- "A flight towards swanship, certainly." "Full swanship," said the girl. "I won't have him for a swan yet in my aviary; he must first grow other and finer feathers."1910, The Pall Mall Magazine
- The biography bears the ever-accompanying character of historical writings, with this aim: the obscuring of unpleasant episodes, the promotion of all geese to swanship. The people of the West are particularly sensitive to criticism.1912, The Nation, page 15
Forms of swanship
| plural | swanships |
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Origin of swanship
From swan + ship.
From swan + -ship.
Questions about swanship
- What does swanship mean?
- Swanship means a ship shaped like a swan.
- What part of speech is swanship?
- Swanship is a noun.
- What is the plural of swanship?
- The plural of swanship is swanships.
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