SHIP CANAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ship canal mean? 

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

1. a canal large enough for seagoing vessels

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SHIP CANAL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A canal large enough for seagoing vessels

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

ship canal; shipway

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

canal (long and narrow strip of water made for boats or for irrigation)

Instance hyponyms:

Gota Canal (a canal for small oceangoing ships to enter Lake Vanern in Sweden)

Panama Canal (a ship canal 40 miles long across the Isthmus of Panama built by the United States (1904-1914))

Suez Canal (a ship canal in northeastern Egypt linking the Red Sea with the Mediterranean Sea)