PASSENGER SHIP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does passenger ship mean? 

• PASSENGER SHIP (noun)
  The noun PASSENGER SHIP has 1 sense:

1. a ship built to carry passengers

  Familiarity information: PASSENGER SHIP used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PASSENGER SHIP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A ship built to carry passengers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("passenger ship" is a kind of...):

ship (a vessel that carries passengers or freight)

Meronyms (parts of "passenger ship"):

awning deck; hurricane deck; hurricane roof; promenade deck (a deck at the top of a passenger ship)

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

liner; ocean liner (a large commercial ship (especially one that carries passengers on a regular schedule))

 Context examples 

Next day we were picked up by the brig Hotspur, bound for Australia, whose captain found no difficulty in believing that we were the survivors of a passenger ship which had foundered.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)