Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A ship for transporting troops.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A ship for the conveyance of troops; a transport.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun engraving A vessel built or fitted for the conveyance of troops; a transport.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
ship used to transport militarytroops .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun ship for transporting troops
Etymologies
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Examples
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The troopship was a converted "cattlewagon" made to carry two hundred colonists and assorted bushes and beasts.
The Forever War Haldeman, Joe 1975
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The troopship was a converted "cattlewagon" made to carry two hundred colonists and assorted bushes and beasts.
The Forever War Haldeman, Joe 1975
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She declined a priority flight to Washington and instead took the first troopship headed for New York.
A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011
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Shaw traced the origins of these expectations to the wreck of the Birkenhead, a troopship and one of the Royal Navy's earliest steamships that had hit a rock and foundered off the coast of South Africa in 1852.
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Only now he was in New York, fresh off a troopship, and had rung up and asked to see her.
A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011
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Julia, along with Rosie and Ellie, was scheduled to fly to Calcutta, where she was booked on a troopship for New York.
A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011
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I left England with the 14th Army on the troopship 'ORION' to India from where we came home on the American Warship the 'General Anderson'.
Frank Cox 2010
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Julia had traveled back on a packed troopship with Rosie Frame and was full of funny stories.
A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011
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Basheer asked him where he was when the war ended, and he said, On a troopship heading for Japan.
March 28th, 2009 m_francis 2009
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On March 8, 1944, to the jaunty sound of band music, they boarded the SS Mariposa, an elegant luxury liner that had been used to run tourists from California to Hawaii before being requisitioned as a troopship, and set sail for India.
A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011
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