variants or less commonly containership
: a ship specially designed or equipped for carrying containerized cargo

Examples of container ship in a Sentence

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Tugboats guide the Maersk Atlanta container ship at the Port of Newark in Newark, New Jersey, US, on Saturday, March 30, 2024. Lori Ann Larocco, CNBC, 19 Sep. 2024 Video footage captured the container ship hitting the bridge after appearing to lose power two times. Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 18 Sep. 2024 Agents boarded another container ship managed by Synergy while it was docked in Baltimore on Saturday. Lea Skene and Brian Witte, Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2024 The Port of Baltimore, which was briefly shut by the collapse of the Key Bridge when it was hit by a container ship earlier this year, handles the nation’s largest volume of auto imports. Chris Isidore and Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN, 26 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for container ship 

Word History

First Known Use

1966, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of container ship was in 1966

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“Container ship.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/container%20ship. Accessed 14 Nov. 2024.

Kids Definition

containership

noun
con·​tain·​er·​ship kən-ˈtā-nər-ˌship How to pronounce containership (audio)
: a ship designed or equipped to carry very large containers of cargo
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