VESSEL: Synonyms and Related Words. What is Another Word for VESSEL?

Need another word that means the same as “vessel”? Find 17 synonyms and 30 related words for “vessel” in this overview.

The synonyms of “Vessel” are: watercraft, vas, boat, sailing boat, ship, yacht, craft, container, receptacle, repository, holder, carrier, duct, tube, channel, passage, pipe

Vessel as a Noun

Definitions of "Vessel" as a noun

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “vessel” as a noun can have the following definitions:

• A craft designed for water transportation.
• A duct or canal holding or conveying blood or other fluid.
• A ship or large boat.
• (chiefly in biblical use) a person regarded as having or embodying a particular quality.
• Any of the tubular structures in the vascular system of a plant, serving to conduct water and mineral nutrients from the root.
• A hollow container, especially one used to hold liquid, such as a bowl or cask.
• An object used as a container (especially for liquids.
• A tube in which a body fluid circulates.

Synonyms of "Vessel" as a noun (17 Words)

boat	A serving dish in the shape of a boat. A gravy boat.
carrier	An aircraft carrier. The bonds were transmitted by carrier.
channel	A service or station using a channel of frequencies. The fields were crossed with irrigation channels.
container	An object for holding or transporting something. More containers can run on a server than traditional virtual machines.
craft	An aircraft or spaceship. A craft fair.
duct	(in the body) a vessel for conveying lymph or glandular secretions such as tears or bile. Ventilation ducts.
holder	A smallholder. Holders of two American hostages.
passage	A narrow way allowing access between buildings or to different rooms within a building a passageway. The species occurs regularly on passage.
pipe	A set of musical pipes joined together as in pan pipes. The sad little pipe of the ringed plover.
receptacle	An enlarged area at the apex of a stem on which the parts of a flower or the florets of a flower head are inserted. Fast food receptacles.
repository	A central location in which data is stored and managed. The metadata will be aggregated in a repository.
sailing boat	Riding in a sailboat.
ship	A spaceship. The ship left England with a crew of 36.
tube	A thing in the form of or resembling a tube. He angled his board to get in the tube.
vas	A vessel or duct.
watercraft	A boat or other vessel that travels on water.
yacht	A medium-sized sailing boat equipped for cruising or racing. An eighty five foot diesel yacht.

Usage Examples of "Vessel" as a noun

• Lord, use this lowly vessel, let me serve You as You will.

Associations of "Vessel" (30 Words)

barge	Transport by barge on a body of water. You can use this method to barge an opponent.
boat	A serving dish in the shape of a boat. A fishing boat.
capillary	A tube of small internal diameter holds liquid by capillary action. Capillary blood.
cruise	Travel or move around a place slowly, typically in search of something. A cruise liner.
demurrage	Detention of a ship or freight car or other cargo beyond its scheduled time of departure.
dock	Of a ship come into a dock and tie up at a wharf. The yard where the boats were docked and maintained.
ferry	Travel by ferry. Ambulances ferried the injured to hospital.
ferryman	A man who operates a ferry.
flotilla	A small fleet of ships or boats. A flotilla of cargo boats.
foresail	The principal sail on a foremast.
galleon	A large square-rigged sailing ship with three or more masts; used by the Spanish for commerce and war from the 15th to 18th centuries. A Spanish treasure galleon wrecked off the Florida Keys.
liner	A boat engaged in sea fishing with lines as opposed to nets. The batter hit a liner to the shortstop.
motorboat	Ride in a motorboat.
naval	Relating to a navy or navies. A naval base.
oakum	Loose fibre obtained by untwisting old rope, used especially in caulking wooden ships.
pier	A platform on pillars projecting from the shore into the sea, typically incorporating entertainment arcades and places to eat.
privateer	An officer or crew member of a privateer. She was captured by a French 44 gun privateer.
sail	A voyage or excursion in a ship especially a sailing ship or boat. Plastic ships could be sailing the oceans soon.
sailing	The action of sailing in a ship or boat. On the eve of her sailing she learned that news had come in from Cyprus.
ship	Travel by ship. Bob got sick a week before we shipped out.
sinking	A feeling caused by uneasiness or apprehension. They still talk about the sinking of the Titanic.
steamboat	A boat that is propelled by a steam engine, especially (in the US) a paddle-wheel craft of a type used on rivers in the 19th century.
submarine	Control a submarine. Submarine volcanic activity.
sunken	Having a sunken area. The wreck of a sunken ship.
transatlantic	Concerning countries on both sides of the Atlantic, typically Britain and the US. A transatlantic flight.
tugboat	A powerful small boat designed to pull or push larger ships.
warship	A government ship that is available for waging war.
whaler	A seaman engaged in whaling.
wreck	The destruction of a ship at sea a shipwreck. The blast wrecked 100 houses.
yacht	Travel in a yacht. An eighty five foot diesel yacht.