ship's company
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.55 in modern English
26
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
All of the occupants of a ship, including crew and passengers.
Example Sentences
- "[T]he whole ship's company consisted of sixty-five men."
- "[T]he regulations enjoin the attendance of the entire ship's company, from the corpulent Captain himself to the smallest boy who strikes the bell."
- "The Aries had a ship's company of twenty-four men, besides four passengers."
- "Before the outgunned ship was overtaken and captured, a crewman was wounded, and he later died. The 82 other members of the ship's company underwent 11 months of brutal captivity."
- "The whole ship's company, captain, officers, quarter-masters, passengers, and all, were quite sure that she had succeeded in getting a promise of marriage from him."