| Berth 1. (n.) An ample space for a ship to dock or anchor. 2. (n.) A room in which a number of the officers or ship's company mess and reside. 3. (n.) The place where a ship lies when she is at anchor, or at a wharf. 4. (n.) An allotted place; an appointment; situation or employment. 5. (n.) A place in a ship to sleep in; a long box or shelf on the side of a cabin or stateroom, or of a railway car, for sleeping in. 6. (v. t.) To give an anchorage to, or a place to lie at; to place in a berth; as, she was berthed stem to stern with the Adelaide. 7. (v. t.) To allot or furnish berths to, on shipboard; as, to berth a ship's company. Thesaurus Entries abide, accommodations, anchor, anchorage, anchorage ground, appointment, basin, bed, billet, breakwater, bulkhead, bunk, cohabit, connection, diggings, digs, dock, dockage, dockyard, domicile, domiciliate, doss down, dry dock, dwell, embankment, employment, engagement, gig, groin, hang out, harbor, harborage, haven, hook, house, housing, incumbency, inhabit, jetty, job, jutty, landing, landing place, landing stage, levee, live, living quarters, lob, lodge, lodging, lodgings, lodgment, marina, mole, moonlighting, mooring, mooring buoy, moorings, mudhook, nest, occupy, office, opening, perch, pier, place, port, position, post, protected anchorage, put up, quarter, quarters, quay, remain, reside, road, roads, roadstead, room, rooms, roost, seaport, seawall, second job, service, shelter, shipyard, situation, sleeping place, slip, spot, squat, stable, station, stay, tenant, tenure, vacancy, wharf |