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# schooner

«schooner» in Mova's school dictionary: **a sailing ship with two or more masts, whose sails are…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (schooners)

### meaning for a pupil

A schooner is a sailing ship with two or more masts, whose sails are set lengthwise along the ship. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/schooner/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

a kind of ship in sea stories; in the lessons it names a type of vessel, like a liner or a frigate

### examples

- The schooner sailed across the bay. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/schooner/#x1)
- We saw a schooner with white sails. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/schooner/#x2)
- The captain steered the schooner into the harbour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/schooner/#x3)

### note

a count of ships: each schooner counts as one ship

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «schooner» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/schooner/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.