dockyard

English

Etymology

From dock +‎ yard.

Noun

dockyard (plural dockyards)

1. A place where ships are repaired or outfitted.
   • 1961 August, “New traffic flows in South Wales”, in Trains Illustrated, page 492:

     Until recently activities in the Haven [Milford Haven] were confined virtually to the naval dockyard, now closed, and to coastal shipping and shipments to and from Ireland, both on a small scale.

Derived terms

• dockyardman

 

Translations

ship repair place

• Bulgarian: корабострои́телница f (korabostroítelnica)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 船廠／船厂 (zh) (chuánchǎng), 造船所 (zh) (zàochuánsuǒ); 造船廠／造船厂 (zh) (zàochuánchǎng)

• Finnish: telakka (fi), korjaustelakka
• French: chantier naval (fr) m
• German: Werft (de) f
• Greek: ναυπηγείο (el) n (nafpigeío), νεώριο (el) n (neório)

  Ancient Greek: νεώριον n (neṓrion), ναυπήγιον n (naupḗgion)

• Japanese: 造船所 (ぞうせんじょ, zōsensho)
• Portuguese: estaleiro (pt) m
• Russian: судоремо́нтный заво́д m (sudoremóntnyj zavód), судостроительная верфь f (sudostroitelʹnaja verfʹ)
• Spanish: astillero (es) m

See also

• boatyard
• shipyard
• harbor, harbour
• marina
• port
• seaport

References

• “dockyard”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.