Synonyms for dock
Most common
Synonyms by meaning
Noun
1. Pier — A fixed structure attached to shore to which a vessel is secured when in port; usually for loading and…
3. Sorrel
Other
Definitions
- n. 1
A fixed structure attached to shore to which a vessel is secured when in port; usually for loading and unloading.
- n. 2
The body of water next to and around a pier.
- n. 3
Any of the genus Rumex of coarse weedy plants with small green flowers related to buckwheat, especially bitter dock (Rumex obtusifolius), and used as potherbs and in folk medicine, especially in curing nettle rash.
Related words
- Word family
- docker dockhand dockie dockman dockmaster dockyard dockage docking
- Phrases
- dock worker bloody dock patience dock wood dock graving dock loading dock dooryard dock northern dock
- Is a kind of
- mooring moorage
Forms
- Plural
- docks → piers, wharfs, jetties, quays…
Example sentences
- pier Tom snuck up behind me and pushed me off the pier.
- wharf The ship sounded its whistle and pulled away from the wharf.
- quay She was waiting at the quay as the ship came in.
- jetty A young couple were watching the sunset from the jetty.
- berth Whenever she sees me, she gives me a wide berth.
By length
- 4 letters
- slip1, pier1, quay1
- 5 letters
- wharf1, berth1, jetty2
- 6 letters
- harbor2, sorrel2
- 7 letters
- landing2, harbour2, bobtail, dockage
- 8 letters
- dockyard2, wharfage
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (jetty2 = 2 syllables).