Shipman Definition

shĭpmən
shipmen
noun

Seaman.

Webster's New World
A sailor.
American Heritage
A shipmaster.
American Heritage

Shipmaster.

Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Shipman

Noun

Singular:
shipman
Plural:
shipmen

Origin of Shipman

  • From Middle English schipman, from Old English scipmann (“shipman, mariner, sailor, rower; one who goes on trading voyages; pirate"), equivalent to ship +"Ž man. Cognate with Icelandic skipmaður, skipamaður (“shipman").

    From Wiktionary

Shipman Sentence Examples

  • The name is of uncertain origin; some derive it from lolium, tares, quoting Chaucer (C. Shipman's Prologue) "This Loller heer wil prechen us somwhat..

  • But until then the trust that Shipman enjoyed appeared boundless.

  • All Shipman proposed was that he should take an electrocardiogram (ECG ), presumably the following week.

  • Shipman recorded the immediate cause of death as cerebral embolus, which had lasted minutes.

  • We now know that, in later years, Shipman was to become a serial murderer.

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Words Starting With

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