Definition for Tonnage:

• The weight of goods carried in a boat or a ship.

Synonyms for Tonnage:

• n.

  •
  • carrier,
  • consignment,
  • delivery,
  • bill of entry,
  • dock,
  • carriage,
  • bill of lading.
  •
  • dead weight,
  • heavy,
  • counterweight,
  • light,
  • dense,
  • net,
  • load,
  • nett,
  • lightweight,
  • density.
  •cargo (noun)
  • haul,
  • contents,
  • burden,
  • ware,
  • goods,
  • shipment,
  • merchandise,
  • lading.
  •fleet (noun)
  • line,
  • navy,
  • squadron,
  • warships,
  • vessels,
  • formation,
  • armada.
  •freight (noun)
  • pack,
  • bulk,
  • ballast,
  • packages,
  • conveyance,
  • bales,
  • wares,
  • transportation.
  •possession (noun)
  • tonnage,
  • tunnage,
  • tonnage duty.
  •preponderancy (noun)
  • preponderance.
  •size (noun)
  • highness,
  • body,
  • immensity,
  • capacity,
  • diameter,
  • substantialities,
  • content,
  • breadth,
  • height,
  • amount,
  • proportion,
  • measurement,
  • width,
  • enormity,
  • largeness,
  • bigness,
  • intensity,
  • magnitude,
  • vastness,
  • volume,
  • spread,
  • hugeness,
  • capaciousness,
  • range,
  • length,
  • stretch,
  • substance,
  • stature,
  • voluminosity,
  • substantiality,
  • greatness,
  • proportions,
  • amplitude,
  • mass,
  • dimensions,
  • scope,
  • extension,
  • caliber,
  • extent,
  • sizableness,
  • area,
  • admeasurement.
  •weight (noun)
  • heftiness,
  • gravity,
  • avoirdupois,
  • g-factor,
  • gross,
  • pressure,
  • ponderousness,
  • ponderosity.

• Other synonyms:

  •n.
  • adiposity,
  • argosy,
  • cargo,
  • duty,
  • encumbrance,
  • fardel,
  • fleet,
  • flotilla,
  • freight,
  • heft,
  • naval forces,
  • payload,
  • poundage,
  • sea power,
  • shipload,
  • shipping,
  • size,
  • tariff,
  • weight,
  • Argosies,
  • Preponderancy,
  • shiploads,
  • hefts,
  • tonnages,
  • naval force,
  • poundages.

Paraphrases for Tonnage:

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    volume, cargo, payload, capacity, load, fleet.

• Other Related

  • Noun, singular or mass
    ton, tonne, TONNES, quantity, weight, amount.

Antonyms for Tonnage:

• n.

  • freight
    benefit.
  • size
    insignificance, smallness, tininess, unimportance.
  • weight
    advantage, pleasure, solution, triviality.

Tonnage Sentence Examples:

• The most you can say of going out with a big tonnage of beasts is that, if you're healthy and have no nerves, you can just stand it.

• The difficulties and delays, however, which occurred in this transaction, and a persuasion that it would not be so economical as I had at first been taught to expect, were powerful additional motives with me for accepting Captain Gillon's offer relative to the South Carolina frigate, in order to avail myself of the supplies in his possession, and to complete his vacant tonnage by purchases in Holland, where the vicinity of the seaport and manufacturing towns insured despatch.

Hyponym for Tonnage:

• n.

  • possession
    tariff, duty.