Phrase guide

sailing ship

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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1

noun

Meaning 1

A ship with masts and sails, powered by the wind.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

a vessel that is powered by the wind; often having several masts

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: sailing vessel

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: vessel, watercraft

Narrower terms: bark, barque, brig, brigantine, hermaphrodite brig, clipper, clipper ship, cutter, dhow, felucca, fore-and-after, galleon, Indiaman, ketch, rigger, sailboat, sailing boat, schooner, sloop, smack, square-rigger, windjammer, yawl, dandy

History

Etymology

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Across languages

Translations

54 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Arabic: سَفِينَة شَرَاعِيَّة — type of ship
  • Armenian: առագաստանավ (aṙagastanav) — type of ship
  • Azerbaijani: yelkənli gəmi — type of ship
  • Basque: belaontzi — type of ship
  • Bulgarian: ветрохо́ден ко́раб (vetrohóden kórab) — type of ship
  • Catalan: veler — type of ship
  • Chinese: 帆船 (zh-min-nan) — type of ship
  • Chinese Mandarin: 帆船 (fānchuán) — type of ship
  • Czech: plachetnice — type of ship
  • Danish: sejlskib — type of ship
  • Dutch: zeilschip — type of ship
  • Esperanto: velŝipo — type of ship
  • Estonian: purjekas — type of ship
  • Finnish: purjealus — type of ship
  • French: voilier — type of ship
  • Galician: veleiro — type of ship
  • German: Segelschiff — type of ship
  • Hebrew: אֳנִיַּת מִפְרָשִׂים (oniyat mifrasim) — type of ship
  • Hebrew: סְפִינַת מִפְרָשִׂים (sfinat mifrasim) — type of ship
  • Hungarian: vitorláshajó — type of ship
  • Icelandic: seglskúta — type of ship
  • Indonesian: kapal layar — type of ship
  • Italian: veliero — type of ship
  • Japanese: 帆船 — type of ship
  • Korean: 범선 (beomseon) — type of ship
  • Latvian: burinieks — type of ship
  • Luxembourgish: Seegelschëff — type of ship
  • Malay: kapal layar — type of ship
  • Maltese: ġifen — type of ship
  • Norman: navithe à vailes — type of ship
  • Norman: vailyi — type of ship
  • Norwegian Bokmål: seilskip — type of ship
  • Norwegian Bokmål: seglskip — type of ship
  • Norwegian Bokmål: seilskute — type of ship
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: seglskip — type of ship
  • Polish: żaglowiec — type of ship
  • Portuguese: veleiro — type of ship
  • Romanian: velier — type of ship
  • Romanian: corabie — type of ship
  • Russian: па́русное су́дно (párusnoje súdno) — type of ship
  • Russian: па́русник (párusnik) — type of ship
  • Serbo-Croatian: једрењак — type of ship
  • Serbo-Croatian: jedrenjak — type of ship
  • Slovak: plachetnica — type of ship
  • Spanish: embarcación a vela — type of ship
  • Spanish: galeón — type of ship
  • Spanish: velero — type of ship
  • Swedish: segelfartyg — type of ship
  • Turkish: yelkenli — type of ship
  • Ukrainian: вітри́льне судно́ (vitrýlʹne sudnó) — type of ship
  • Ukrainian: вітри́льник (vitrýlʹnyk) — type of ship
  • Vietnamese: thuyền buồm — type of ship
  • Welsh: llong hwylio — type of ship
  • Yiddish: זעגלשיף (zeglshif) — type of ship