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Synonyms for shipway

Most common

slipway ship canal seaway

All synonyms

Noun

1. Ways

ways informal US, slipway

Definitions

  1. n. 1

    The sloping dry dock in which a ship is built and from where it is launched.

Related words

Is a kind of
waterway

Forms

Plural
shipways → slipways, seaways…

Example sentences

  • slipway Tom and Mary launched their boat from the slipway at the tip of the peninsula.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
shipwayfalling
slipwayfalling
seawayfalling

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

4 letters
ways1
6 letters
seaway2
7 letters
slipway

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (seaway2 = 2 syllables).