troopship

[ troop-ship ]

/ ˈtrupˌʃɪp /

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noun

a ship for the conveyance of military troops; transport.

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Origin of troopship

First recorded in 1860–65; troop + ship¹

Words nearby troopship

trone, tronk, troop, troop carrier, trooper, troopship, troostite, trop, tropaeolin, tropaeolum, tropaeum

How to use troopship in a sentence

I was posted to a battery at Meerut, and warned to be ready to start in an early troopship.
Forty-one years in India|Frederick Sleigh Roberts
Feb. 6—United States troopship Tuscania sunk by submarine, lost.
America's War for Humanity|Thomas Herbert Russell
In the troopship and the Bengal barrack even his official authority could hardly win a hearing from officer or soldier.
Henry Martyn Saint and Scholar|George Smith
Who of the millions that have undergone the experience will ever forget their first crossing of the Channel in a troopship?
Canada in Flanders, Volume II (of 3)|Lord Max Aitken Beaverbrook

A bright sea and sky disfigured by a ring of curling black smoke—a death-screen for the last agonies of a torpedoed troopship.
Merchantmen-at-Arms|David W. Bone

British Dictionary definitions for troopship

troopship

/ (ˈtruːpˌʃɪp) /

noun

a ship, usually a converted merchant ship, used to transport military personnel

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