STEAMSHIP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does steamship mean? 

• STEAMSHIP (noun)
  The noun STEAMSHIP has 1 sense:

1. a ship powered by one or more steam engines

  Familiarity information: STEAMSHIP used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STEAMSHIP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A ship powered by one or more steam engines

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

steamer; steamship

Hypernyms ("steamship" is a kind of...):

ship (a vessel that carries passengers or freight)

Meronyms (parts of "steamship"):

steam engine (external-combustion engine in which heat is used to raise steam which either turns a turbine or forces a piston to move up and down in a cylinder)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "steamship"):

paddle-wheeler; paddle steamer (a steam vessel propelled by paddle wheels)

tramp; tramp steamer (a commercial steamer for hire; one having no regular schedule)

 Context examples 

“Master of the steamship Macedonia, seal-hunter,” was the answer.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Because men, groping in the Arctic darkness, had found a yellow metal, and because steamship and transportation companies were booming the find, thousands of men were rushing into the Northland.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

And when the ice goes out of Bering Sea, the man and woman go away on a steamship.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Him we enlisted at Para, on the recommendation of the steamship company, on whose vessels he had learned to speak a halting English.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Our months of partnership had not been so uneventful as he had stated, for I find, on looking over my notes, that this period includes the case of the papers of ex-President Murillo, and also the shocking affair of the Dutch steamship Friesland, which so nearly cost us both our lives.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The Ghost, at the moment, was uptossed on a sea, and I caught a clear view of a small steamship two or three miles away, rolling and pitching, head on to the sea, as it steamed toward us.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)