dockyard
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4.4
- noun
- /ˈdɑkˌjɑrd/
:
astillero
- This is the Royal Dockyard at Devonport.
- Royal Dockyard
- Naval Dockyard
- Fleet dockyard
Examples
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Thankful to be rid of their charges, Jera and her husband gave their guests a brief tour of the dockyard.
Fiction book (1991) -
The other three Mitsubishi firms, which were responsible together with the dockyards for over 90 percent of the industrial output of the city, were seriously damaged.
Blog text (9) -
Can we come to the dockyard?
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All those who are still able to see are urged to make their way to the dockyard.
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A Royal Navy dockyard is adjacent.
Academic text (1996) -
In shipbuilding, Spain failed to keep pace with the new techniques of the northern European dockyards.
Academic text (2004) -
He's from the Scottish dockyards, isn't he?
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Pett, the officer in charge of the dockyard at Chatham, had been brought before the Privy Council to answer charges of negligence (Patterson 158).
Academic text (1996) -
Much of it was industrial dockyards, ports thick with freighters from Turkey and the North African coast, but beside a moss-slimed pier, he found a small strand from which he traced a spit out to an island of rocks.
Fiction book (2000) -
The ship was built and repaired at the local dockyard before being launched.
Synonyms
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3.2
A place where ships are built or repaired
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3.7
A place in a harbour where ships stop to be loaded, unloaded, or repaired
A place in a harbor where ships stop for loading, unloading or repairs
How Big
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Dockyard is made of dock ('a place where ships tie up') and yard ('an open working area' like a 'backyard'), so it is the yard where ships are built and repaired.