antiship
adjective, verb
antiship is an adjective meaning “Designed to attack a naval ship” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-N-T-I-S-H-I-P, and it appears about once in every 45 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does antiship mean?
adjective
- 1
Designed to attack a naval ship.
A single EXOCET antiship missile can sink a destroyer. Try not to get hit.
- 2
slangPertaining to the activities of anti-shippers.
verb
- 1
slangTo participate in the activities of anti-shippers.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of antiship
- anti-ship
- antiships present, singular, he/she/it
- antishipping participle, present
- antishipped participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is antiship?
Antiship appears about once in every 45 million words in written English, the 206,808th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Antiship in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense designed to attack a naval ship:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Portuguese | antinavio, antinavios |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does antiship come from?
From anti- + ship (“vessel”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).