berth

Speech parts

1. berth - Noun

2. berth - Verb

Meaning

Convenient sea room.

A room in which a number of the officers or ship's company mess and reside.

The place where a ship lies when she is at anchor, or at a wharf.

An allotted place; an appointment; situation or employment.

A place in a ship to sleep in; a long box or shelf on the side of a cabin or stateroom, or of a railway car, for sleeping in.

To give an anchorage to, or a place to lie at; to place in a berth; as, she was berthed stem to stern with the Adelaide.

To allot or furnish berths to, on shipboard; as, to berth a ship's company.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

moor wharf place position office post slip situation spot mooring billet bunk moorage harbor quay
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Antonyms

domestic inferior integrity terrible mansion redundancy
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Hypernyms

anchorage line provide business occupation supply

Hyponyms

wharf admiralty regency khanate deanery premiership

Phrases with the word

wide berth upper berth give someone a wide berth sleeping berth building berth a wide berth

Derivatives

berthed berthing

Examples

Anything that is worth doing has been done frequently. Things hitherto undone should be given, I suspect, a wide berth. Max Beerbohm

Seattle was built out on pilings over the sea, and at high tide the whole city seemed to come afloat like a ship lifting free from a mud berth and swaying in its chains. Jonathan Raban

Her berth was of the wombe of morning dew, And her conception of the joyous Prime. Edmund Spenser

We had an opportunity to clinch a playoff berth and I think if that's not enough motivation I don't think you should be playing this game. Tina Thompson

he occupied a post in the treasury Source: Internet

the big ship wharfed in the evening Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

Berteroa Berteroa incana Berteroa mutabilis bertha berthage Berthelot