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dockyard

nounB2+Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #14,142 of 15,258mostly written

Other forms: dockyards

A dockyard is where ships are built and repaired. The naval dockyard, work in the dockyard, the dockyard gates.

The naval ones were the largest industrial sites in the world in their day, and Portsmouth and Chatham employed whole towns. Britain says dockyard and shipyard where America mostly says shipyard alone.

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Definitions of dockyard

  1. 1noundockyardWhere ships are built and repaired.B2+

    “Thousands of workers built warships in the dockyard during the war.”

dockyard is a place.

Where it comes from

Dock plus yard, from the enclosed ground around a ship's dock.

From dock + yard.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Shipping & Logistics

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dockyard in the wild

  • The dockyard closed on 31 March 1984 after more than four centuries of continuous operation.

    Chatham, Kent

  • The former dockyard area is now partly residential, partly industrial, with remnants of its historic past having been restored.

    Woolwich Dockyard

  • Established in Chatham in the mid-16th century, the dockyard subsequently expanded into neighbouring Gillingham; at its most extensive two-thirds of the dockyard lay in Gillingham, one-third in Chatham.

    Chatham Dockyard

  • Chatham dockyard closed in 1984, and 84 acres of the Georgian dockyard is now managed as the Chatham Historic Dockyard visitor attraction by the Chatham Historic Dockyard Trust.

    Chatham Dockyard

  • The dockyard is named after Admiral Horatio Nelson, who lived in the Royal Navy Dockyard from 1784 through 1787.

    Nelson's Dockyard

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.