Cunarder

English

Etymology

From Cunard +‎ -er. The company was founded by Sir Samuel Cunard (1787-1865).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)də(ɹ)

Noun

Cunarder (plural Cunarders)

1. A steamship operated by the Cunard Line.
   • 1877, Hjalmar Hjorth Boysen, Tales From Two Hemispheres:

     Our Norseman found himself standing on the deck of a huge black-hulled Cunarder.

   • 1896, William Dean Howells, The Landlord At Lions Head:

     a gasping August, whose hot breath thickened round the Cunarder before she got half-way up the harbor.

   • 1912, Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters:

     Wireless despatches up to noon Monday showed that the passengers of the Titanic were being transferred aboard the steamer Carpathia, a Cunarder, which left New York, April 13th, for Naples.

Anagrams

• Durrance, undercar