cruise ship

noun

variants or less commonly cruise liner
: a large ship that stops at different ports and carries passengers who are traveling for pleasure

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In addition to the legal and financial fallout from the crash, the company also had to deal with the actual cleanup of the 114,000-ton cruise ship that remained stranded and half-sunk off the coast of Giglio Island. Caroline Blair, PEOPLE, 15 July 2026 Regal Princess cruise ship departing Southampton docks, southern England, UK. Steven Yablonski, CBS News, 13 July 2026 On Friday, the cruise ship sailed to the Greek island of Crete instead. Billy Stockwell, CNN Money, 11 July 2026 South of Florence, on Tuscany’s Monte Argentario peninsula, Porto Ercole exudes the same timeless glamour as the Amalfi Coast but on a much smaller scale—and sans swells of cruise ship crowds. Lane Nieset, Travel + Leisure, 11 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for cruise ship

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“Cruise ship.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cruise%20ship. Accessed 16 Jul. 2026.

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