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Pronunciation: [stˈiːmʃɪps] (IPA)

Steamships, also known as steamboats, are vessels that use steam power to navigate waterways. They were popular during the 19th and early 20th centuries for transportation, trade, and warfare. Though steamships have since declined in use, boats still operate on steam power, albeit on a smaller scale. Other words used to describe types of steamships include paddle steamers, side-wheelers, and sternwheelers. Some modern-day vessels still use steam propulsion, such as river cruise ships and vintage steamboats used for tourism and recreation. Despite the decrease in popularity, steamships remain an important part of maritime history.
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A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

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The landing designed for the mail steamships is also here.
"The Story of Malta"
Maturin M. Ballou
A few steamships still make of this place a coaling station, but these grow less in number annually, though to maintain this small branch of business every facility is freely given by the local authorities.
"The Pearl of India"
Maturin M. Ballou
We have seen a record of thirteen steamships, up to January, 1893, which were wrecked and entirely lost at various times, in attempting to enter the harbor of Point de Galle.
"The Pearl of India"
Maturin M. Ballou

Famous quotes with Steamships

  • In time of war steamships and improved arms are the most important things.
    Townsend Harris
  • Since the invention of steamships distant countries have become like those that are near at hand.
    Townsend Harris
  • As well might it be said that, because we are ignorant of the laws by which metals are produced and trees developed, we cannot know anything of the origin of steamships and railways.
    Alfred Russel Wallace
  • 11. We shall sing the great masses shaken with work, pleasure, or rebellion: we shall sing the multicolored and polyphonic tidal waves of revolution in the modern metropolis; shall sing the vibrating nocturnal fervor of factories and shipyards burning under violent electrical moons; bloated railroad stations that devour smoking serpents; factories hanging from the sky by the twisting threads of spiraling smoke; bridges like gigantic gymnasts who span rivers, flashing at the sun with the gleam of a knife; adventurous steamships that scent the horizon, locomotives with their swollen chest, pawing the tracks like massive steel horses bridled with pipes, and the oscillating flight of airplanes, whose propeller flaps at the wind like a flag and seems to applaud like a delirious crowd.
    Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

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