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shipping

noun · verb · 9 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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Pronunciation

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  • /ˈʃɪpɪŋ/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • /ˈʃɪpiŋ/ Upper Midwestern US, Northwestern US, Canada, pre-/ŋ/-tensing
  • rhymes with -ɪpɪŋ
  • CMU ARPABET: SH IH1 P IH0 NG Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

The transportation of goods.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

The body of ships belonging to one nation, port or industry; ships collectively.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

Passage or transport on a ship.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

The cost of sending an item or package using postal or carrier services.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Examples

  • The shipping is included in the quoted price.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

noun

Meaning 5

Navigation.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

6

noun

Meaning 6

The desire by followers of a fandom for two or more people, either real-life people or fictional characters, to be in a romantic or sexual relationship.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: slang, uncountable

Topics: lifestyle

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

7

verb

Meaning 7

present participle and gerund of ship

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: form-of, gerund, participle, present

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

8

noun

Meaning 8

the commercial enterprise of moving goods and materials

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: transportation, transport

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: commercial enterprise, business enterprise, business

Narrower terms: air transportation, air transport, navigation, hauling, trucking, truckage, freight, freightage, express, expressage, ferry, ferrying

9

noun

Meaning 9

conveyance provided by the ships belonging to one country or industry

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: cargo ships, merchant marine, merchant vessels

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: conveyance, transport

History

Etymology

From Middle English schipping, schyppynge, from schippen, schipen (“to take ship, navigate”), from Old English scipian (“to take ship; put in order, equip, man a ship”), equivalent to ship + -ing.

Clipping of relationshipping.

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sek-? Proto-Indo-European *-éyti Proto-Indo-European *skey-der.? Proto-Germanic *skipą Proto-West Germanic *skip Old English scip Middle English schip English ship English -ing English shipping From ship + -ing.

Across languages

Translations

76 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Bulgarian: доставка (dostavka) — transportation of goods
  • Bulgarian: доставяне (dostavjane) — transportation of goods
  • Catalan: enviament — transportation of goods
  • Catalan: transport — transportation of goods
  • Chinese Mandarin: 運輸 /运输 (yùnshū) — transportation of goods
  • Chinese Mandarin: 航運 /航运 (hángyùn) — transportation of goods
  • Czech: přeprava — transportation of goods
  • Dutch: verzending — transportation of goods
  • Finnish: kuljetus — transportation of goods
  • Finnish: toimitus — transportation of goods
  • French: expédition — transportation of goods
  • French: envoi — transportation of goods
  • Galician: envío — transportation of goods
  • German: Schifffahrt — transportation of goods
  • Hungarian: szállítás — transportation of goods
  • Irish: seoladh — transportation of goods
  • Latin: nāviculāria — transportation of goods
  • Macedonian: до́става (dóstava) — transportation of goods
  • Macedonian: до́ставка (dóstavka) — transportation of goods
  • Macedonian: доставу́вање (dostavúvanje) — transportation of goods
  • Macedonian: пре́воз (prévoz) — transportation of goods
  • Portuguese: remessa — transportation of goods
  • Portuguese: transporte — transportation of goods
  • Portuguese: envio — transportation of goods
  • Russian: перево́зка (perevózka) — transportation of goods
  • Russian: доста́вка (dostávka) — transportation of goods
  • Russian: отпра́вка (otprávka) — transportation of goods
  • Serbo-Croatian: dostava — transportation of goods
  • Serbo-Croatian: prijevoz — transportation of goods
  • Serbo-Croatian: isporuka — transportation of goods
  • Serbo-Croatian: otprema — transportation of goods
  • Spanish: envío — transportation of goods
  • Spanish: transporte — transportation of goods
  • Swedish: frakt — transportation of goods
  • Bulgarian: флот (flot) — body of ships belonging to one nation, port or industry
  • Chinese Mandarin: 船舶 (chuánbó) — body of ships belonging to one nation, port or industry
  • Finnish: laivasto — body of ships belonging to one nation, port or industry
  • Irish: loingeas — body of ships belonging to one nation, port or industry
  • Macedonian: фло́та (flóta) — body of ships belonging to one nation, port or industry
  • Portuguese: frota — body of ships belonging to one nation, port or industry
  • Scottish Gaelic: luingeas — body of ships belonging to one nation, port or industry
  • Finnish: laivamatka — passage or transport on a ship
  • Finnish: laivakuljetus — passage or transport on a ship
  • Finnish: laivaus — passage or transport on a ship
  • Irish: loingseoireacht — passage or transport on a ship
  • Macedonian: брода́рење (brodárenje) — passage or transport on a ship
  • Macedonian: пло́видба (plóvidba) — passage or transport on a ship
  • Serbo-Croatian: plovidba — passage or transport on a ship
  • Serbo-Croatian: brodarenje — passage or transport on a ship
  • Bulgarian: навло (navlo) — cost of sending goods
  • Catalan: despeses d'enviament — cost of sending goods
  • Catalan: despeses de transport — cost of sending goods
  • Czech: doprava — cost of sending goods
  • Danish: forsendelsesomkostninger — cost of sending goods
  • French: frais de port — cost of sending goods
  • French: frais de transport — cost of sending goods
  • French: transport — cost of sending goods
  • French: frais de livraison — cost of sending goods
  • Galician: gastos de envío — cost of sending goods
  • German: Versandkosten — cost of sending goods
  • German: Transportkosten — cost of sending goods
  • Greek: έξοδα αποστολής (éxoda apostolís) — cost of sending goods
  • Hungarian: szállítási költség — cost of sending goods
  • Irish: iompar — cost of sending goods
  • Irish: seachadadh — cost of sending goods
  • Italian: spese di spedizione — cost of sending goods
  • Macedonian: по́двоз (pódvoz) — cost of sending goods
  • Norwegian: fraktutgifter — cost of sending goods
  • Portuguese: taxas de envio — cost of sending goods
  • Serbo-Croatian: dostavnina — cost of sending goods
  • Serbo-Croatian: podvoz — cost of sending goods
  • Serbo-Croatian: podvoznina — cost of sending goods
  • Spanish: gastos de envío — cost of sending goods
  • Spanish: gastos de transporte — cost of sending goods
  • Swedish: fraktkostnad — cost of sending goods
  • Welsh: cludiant — cost of sending goods
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