steamship

See also: steam-ship and steam ship

English

The QE2, a steamship

Etymology

From steam +‎ ship.

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (Southern England):

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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.

Synonyms

• steamboat, steamer

Derived terms

• steamship round

Translations

vessel propelled by steam

• Afrikaans: stoomskip
• Albanian: vapor (sq) m
• Arabic: بَاخِرَة f (bāḵira), سَفِينَة بُخَارِيَّة f (safīna buḵāriyya)
• Armenian: շոգենավ (hy) (šogenav)
• Azerbaijani: buxar gəmisi, paroxod
• Basque: lurrunontzi
• Belarusian: парахо́д m (paraxód)
• Bulgarian: парахо́д (bg) m (parahód)
• Catalan: vapor (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 汽船 (zh) (qìchuán), 輪船 / 轮船 (zh) (lúnchuán)

• Chuvash: пӑрахут (părax̬ut)
• Czech: parník (cs) m
• Danish: dampskib (da) n
• Dutch: stoomboot (nl) n, stoomschip (nl) n
• Esperanto: vaporŝipo
• Estonian: aurulaev, aurik
• Faroese: dampskip n, dampari
• Finnish: höyrylaiva (fi), höyryalus (fi)
• French: bateau à vapeur (fr) m, vapeur (fr) m
• Georgian: პარახოდი (ṗaraxodi)
• German: Dampfschiff (de) n, Dampfer (de) m
• Greek: ατμόπλοιο (el) n (atmóploio), βαπόρι (el) n (vapóri)
• Hebrew: אֳנִיַּת קִיטוֹר (he) f ('oniyát kitór)
• Hindi: स्टीमर (hi) m (sṭīmar), दिख़ानी जहाज़ m (dixānī jahāz)
• Hungarian: gőzhajó (hu), gőzös (hu)
• Icelandic: gufuskip n, dampskip (is) n, eimskip n
• Ido: vaporonavo (io)
• Indonesian: kapal uap, kapal api (id)
• Italian: nave a vapore f, piroscafo (it) m
• Japanese: 蒸気船 (ja) (じょうきせん, jōkisen), 汽船 (ja) (きせん, kisen)
• Kazakh: пароход (paroxod)
• Korean: 증기선(蒸氣船) (ko) (jeunggiseon), 기선(氣船) (ko) (giseon)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: vapor (ku)

• Kyrgyz: пароход (parohod)
• Latvian: tvaikonis m
• Lithuanian: garlaivis m
• Low German: Damper
• Macedonian: параброд m (parabrod)
• Malay: kapal wap
• Norman: stînme m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: dampskip n

• Pashto: اوبېړۍ f (orbeṛǝy)
• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: کَشْتیِ بُخار (kašti-ye boxâr), واپور (vâpor)

• Polish: parowiec (pl) m, parostatek (pl) m
• Portuguese: barco a vapor m
• Romanian: vapor (ro) n
• Russian: парохо́д (ru) m (paroxód)
• Sami:

  Kildin Sami: парходт (parxodt)

• Scottish Gaelic: bàta-smùide m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: па̏робро̄д m парни брод m

  Latin: pȁrobrōd (sh) m, parni brod m

• Slovak: parník m
• Slovene: parnik (sl) m
• Spanish: barco de vapor m
• Swedish: ångfartyg (sv) n, ångbåt (sv) c
• Tagalog: buke
• Tajik: пароход (paroxod)
• Tatar: пароход (paroxod)
• Turkish: vapur (tr), buharlı gemi (tr)

  Ottoman Turkish: واپور (vapur)

• Turkmen: parohod
• Ukrainian: паропла́в m (paropláv)
• Urdu: دِخانی جَہاز m (dixānī jahāz), سْٹِیمَر m (sṭīmar)
• Uyghur: پاراخوت (paraxot)
• Uzbek: paroxod (uz)

Further reading

• steamship on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• aphetisms, mateships, shipmates, teamships