shipwright

ship·wright

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Transcription

- US Pronunciation
- US IPA
- UK Pronunciation
- UK IPA
- [ship-rahyt]
- /ˈʃɪpˌraɪt/
- /ˈʃɪpraɪt/

- US Pronunciation
- US IPA
- [ship-rahyt]
- /ˈʃɪpˌraɪt/

Definitions of shipwright word

noun shipwright a person who builds and launches wooden vessels or does carpentry work in connection with the building and launching of steel or iron vessels. 1
noun shipwright person who builds ships 1
countable noun shipwright A shipwright is a person who builds or repairs ships as a job. 0
noun shipwright an artisan skilled in one or more of the tasks required to build vessels 0
noun shipwright a man, esp. a carpenter, whose work is the construction and repair of ships 0

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Origin of shipwright

First appearance:

before 1100

One of the 6% oldest English words

before 1100; Middle English; Old English scipwyrhta. See ship1, wright

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Parts of speech for Shipwright

noun

adjective

verb

adverb

pronoun

preposition

conjunction

determiner

exclamation

Full grammatical hierarchy of Shipwright

shipwright popularity

A pretty common term. Usually people know it’s meaning, but prefer to use a more spread out synonym. About 47% of English native speakers know the meaning and use word.

Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".

shipwright usage trend in Literature

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