Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

ship money

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.85 in modern English

Syllables: ship -money
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A tax applied to coastal towns for their defence in wartime.

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"The imposition of ship money without Parliamentary consent was one of the causes of the English Civil War."
"When I stood by the side of Hampden, contending against a heavy oppression, and for an undeniable right, who could have thought that his refusal to pay that twenty shillings ship-money would be the first act of a resistance that was destined to arouse a whole nation, and kindle civil war from one end of our island to the other?"

Usage

Inflected Forms

ship moneys (plural) ship monies (plural)

Questions

What does ship money mean?: A tax applied to coastal towns for their defence in wartime.

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