Synonyms for vessel

Most common

ship · boat · craft · watercraft · canal · pod · receptacle · utensil

All synonyms

Noun

Definitions

1. n. 1

   A craft for transportation on or in water, air, or space. Any craft designed for transportation on or in water, such as a ship, boat, or submarine.

Related words

Phrases

cargo vessel container vessel sailing vessel seed vessel lymph vessel space vessel blood vessel star vessel

Is a kind of

container vessel vehicle

Forms

Plural

vessels → boats, ships, watercrafts, crafts…

Example sentences

• ship Owing to the storm, the ship could not leave port.
• boat She caught sight of a rowing boat in the distance.
• craft Flower arranging is a traditional craft in Japan.
• watercraft A gunboat is a naval watercraft.
• canal We hear the plop of a frog jumping into the canal.
• pod The twin sisters are alike as two peas in a pod.

Popularity over time

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

By length

3 letters

ark¹, pod¹, vas

4 letters

ship¹, boat¹, duct¹

5 letters

craft¹, canal²

6 letters

bottom², packet²

7 letters

trachea³, utensil³

10 letters

receptacle⁴, watercraft

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (canal² = 2 syllables).

In other languages

Français

vaisseau

Español

vaso

Deutsch

Gefäß

Català

vas