steamship

See also: steam-ship and steam ship

English

Etymology

From steam +‎ ship.

Noun

steamship (plural steamships)

  1. A ship or vessel propelled by steam power.
    • 1962 April, J. N. Faulkner, “Summer Saturday at Waterloo”, in Modern Railways, page 264:
      Steamship arrivals, however, are less predictable and the best arrangements of shipping companies and the railway operating department may be upset by weather and tide.
    • 2015 October 22, Michael Pearson, “153-year-old shipwreck found in Lake Ontario”, in CNN‎[1]:
      The shipwreck is the earliest examples yet found of a propeller-driven steamship on the Great Lakes.
    • 2024 May 8, Dhruv Tikekar, “How India got stuck in its own unusual time zone”, in CNN‎[2]:
      India’s half-hour zone dates back to colonial rule of India and the era when ever-faster steamships and trains were shrinking the world.

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  • steamship round

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