freighter

noun

freight·​er ˈfrā-tər 

1

: one that loads or charters and loads a ship

2

: shipper

3

: a ship or airplane used chiefly to carry freight

Examples of freighter in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

May 9 marks the anniversary of when part of the original Sunshine Skyway Bridge collapsed into Tampa Bay after it was struck by a freighter during a storm. —Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 8 May 2025

After learning of the loss of the iron ore freighter Edmund Fitzgerald on Lake Superior and the deaths of all 29 crew members from Newsweek, Gord lifted passages from the article and put them to a dreamy dirge: The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. —Ryan Craig, Forbes.com, 13 June 2025

Night shift in a teeming academic hospital can feel like a relentlessly heaving freighter, and I’d been hustling from ward to ward bailing water; this task was just another on my scut list. —Danielle Ofri, New Yorker, 7 June 2025

Season 1 ended with him on a freighter teaming with Stellan Skarsgård’s Luthen Rael, another Rebellion lynchpin. —Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 14 Apr. 2025

Word History

Etymology

freight entry 2 + -er entry 2

First Known Use

1622, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Rhymes for freighter

• cater
• crater
• frater
• gator
• grater
• greater
• hater
• krater
• later
• plater
• prater
• rater

Kids Definition

freighter

noun

freight·​er ˈfrāt-ər 

1

: a person who carries or ships freight

2

: a ship or airplane used chiefly to carry freight