steamship

See also: steam-ship and steam ship

English

The QE2, a steamship

Etymology

steam +‎ ship

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.

Synonyms

• steamboat, steamer

Translations

vessel propelled by steam

• Arabic: بَاخِرَة‎ f (bāḵira), سَفِينَة بُخَارِيَّة‎ f (safīna buḵāriyya)
• Azerbaijani: buxar gəmisi
• Basque: lurrunontzi
• Belarusian: парахо́д m (paraxód)
• Bulgarian: параход (bg) m (parahod)
• Chinese:

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

• Czech: parník (cs) m
• Danish: dampskib (da) n
• Dutch: stoomboot (nl) n
• Esperanto: vaporŝipo
• Finnish: höyrylaiva (fi), höyryalus (fi)
• French: bateau à vapeur (fr) m
• German: Dampfschiff (de) n, Dampfer (de) m
• Greek: ατμόπλοιο (el) n (atmóploio)
• Hungarian: gőzhajó (hu), gőzös (hu)
• Icelandic: Gufuskip n
• Ido: vaporonavo (io)
• Indonesian: kapal uap

• 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)
• Korean: 증기선 (ko) (jeunggiseon), 기선 (ko) (giseon)
• Low German: Damper
• Macedonian: параброд m (parabrod)
• Norman: stînme m
• Norwegian: dampskip n
• Polish: parowiec (pl) m
• Portuguese: barco a vapor m
• Russian: парохо́д (ru) m (paroxód)
• Scottish Gaelic: bàta-smùide m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пароброд m парни брод m

  Roman: parobrod (sh) m, parni brod m

• Slovene: parnik (sl) m
• Spanish: barco de vapor m
• Swedish: ångfartyg (sv) n
• Tagalog: buke
• Ukrainian: паропла́в m (paropláv)

Derived terms

• steamship round

Further reading

• steamship on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• aphetisms, mateships, shipmates, teamships