SHIPYARD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does shipyard mean? 

• SHIPYARD (noun)
  The noun SHIPYARD has 1 sense:

1. a workplace where ships are built or repaired

  Familiarity information: SHIPYARD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SHIPYARD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A workplace where ships are built or repaired

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("shipyard" is a kind of...):

work; workplace (a place where work is done)

Meronyms (parts of "shipyard"):

dry dock; drydock; graving dock (a large dock from which water can be pumped out; used for building ships or for repairing a ship below its waterline)

shipway; slipway; ways (structure consisting of a sloping way down to the water from the place where ships are built or repaired)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "shipyard"):

naval shipyard; navy yard (a military shipyard)

 Context examples 

Based on photographs of RMS Titanic at the shipyard that built it in Belfast, Ireland, he suggested fire by spotting large black streaks in the region struck by the iceberg.

(UK documentary claims fire weakened RMS Titanic, Wikinews)