shipyard

English

Etymology

From ship +‎ yard.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈʃɪpˌjɑɹd/

• Audio (US):

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• Hyphenation: ship‧yard

Noun

shipyard (plural shipyards)

1. A place where ships are built and repaired.
   • 1974, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations, Department of Defense Appropriations for 1975: Hearings..., page 320:

     To my mind, it appears obvious in the context of total shipwork, the private shipyards are doing very well indeed. It is true that with the dwindling size of the Navy, there will be less repair work.

   • 2009, Sara E. Lewis, James City County, page 77:

     On the Chickahominy, the Hazelwood brothers' fish house at Hicks Island and the Menzel brothers' fish house near the old shipyard thrived by serving local and distant markets. As late as 1977, a Publick Observer article boasted, "If you are served turtle soup in Atlanta or catfish in Ft. Wayne, Ind., chances are good that the main ingredients came from the waters of the James or the Chickahominy."

Derived terms

• built like a brick shipyard
• shipyard eye

Translations

place to build and repair ships

• Armenian: նավաշինարան (hy) (navašinaran)
• Asturian: astilleru m
• Basque: ontziola (eu)
• Belarusian: верф f (vjerf), суднаве́рф f (sudnavjérf), карабе́льня f (karabjélʹnja)
• Bulgarian: корабострои́телница f (korabostroítelnica)
• Catalan: drassana (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 船廠 / 船厂 (zh) (chuánchǎng), 造船所 (zh) (zàochuánsuǒ), 船塢 / 船坞 (zh) (chuánwù), 造船廠 / 造船厂 (zh) (zàochuánchǎng)

• Czech: loděnice pl
• Danish: skibsværft (da) n, værft (da) n
• Dutch: scheepswerf (nl) f
• Esperanto: ŝipkonstruejo, ŝipfarejo
• Finnish: telakka (fi)
• French: chantier naval (fr) m
• Galician: estaleiro m
• Georgian: ვერფი (verpi), გემთსაშენი ვერფი (gemtsašeni verpi), გემთსარემონტო ვერფი (gemtsaremonṭo verpi)
• German: Werft (de) f
• Greek: ναυπηγείο (el) n (nafpigeío)
• Hungarian: hajógyár (hu), hajójavító műhely
• Icelandic: skipasmíðastöð f, slippur (is) m
• Indonesian: galangan (id)
• Irish: longchlós m
• Italian: cantiere navale m
• Japanese: 造船所 (ja) (ぞうせんじょ, zōsensho), 造船設備 (zōsen setsubi)
• Korean: 조선소(造船所) (ko) (joseonso)
• Macedonian: бродоградилиште f (brodogradilište)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: verft (no) n, skipsverft n

  Nynorsk: verft n, skipsverft n

• Pannonian Rusyn: ладьобудовалїще n (ladʹobudovaljišče)
• Polish: stocznia (pl) f
• Portuguese: estaleiro (pt)
• Romanian: șantier naval (ro) n
• Russian: верфь (ru) f (verfʹ), судове́рфь (ru) f (sudovérfʹ), судоремо́нтный заво́д m (sudoremóntnyj zavód)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: бродоградилиште n

  Roman: brodogradilište (sh) n

• Slovak: lodenica f
• Slovene: ladjedelnica f
• Spanish: astillero (es) m, atarazana (es) f (historical or archaic)
• Swedish: skeppsvarv (sv) n, varv (sv) n
• Turkish: tersane (tr)
• Ukrainian: верф f (verf), суднове́рф f (sudnovérf)
• Vietnamese: xưởng đóng tàu
• Welsh: iard longau f
• Yiddish: שיפֿבױערײַ f (shifboyeray)