steamboat

English

Robert Fulton's Clermont

Etymology

steam +‎ boat

Pronunciation

(US) IPA^(key): /ˈstimˌboʊt/

Noun

steamboat (plural steamboats)

A boat or vessel propelled by steam power.
1870 By and by the steamboat intruded. Then for fifteen or twenty years, these men continued to run their keelboats down-stream, and the steamers did all of the upstream business, the keelboatmen selling their boats in New Orleans, and returning home as deck passengers in the steamers. — Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi, Chapter 3.

Synonyms

steamer, steamship

Derived terms

Steamboat Springs

Translations

vessel powered by steam

Albanian: vapor (sq)
Arabic: بَاخِرَة‎‎ f (bāḵira), سَفِينَة بُخَارِيَّة‎‎ f (safīna buḵāriyya)
Basque: lurrunontzi
Chinese:
Mandarin: 汽船 (zh) (qìchuán), 輪船 (zh), 轮船 (zh) (lúnchuán)
Czech: parník (cs) m
Danish: dampskib (da) n, damper c
Dutch: stoomboot (nl) f, m
Finnish: höyryalus (fi)
French: bateau à vapeur (fr) m
German: Dampfschiff (de) n, Dampfer (de) m
Greek: ατμόπλοιο (el) n (atmóploio)
Hungarian: gőzhajó (hu), gőzös (hu)
Ido: vaporonavo (io)
Indonesian: kapal uap
Italian: nave a vapore f

Japanese: 蒸気船 (ja) (じょうきせん, jōkisen)
Lithuanian: garlaivis m
Low German: Damper
Macedonian: параброд m (párabrod)
Norwegian: dampskip n
Polish: parowiec (pl) m, parostatek (pl) m
Portuguese: barco a vapor m
Russian: парохо́д (ru) (paroxód)
Scottish Gaelic: bàta-smùide m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: пароброд m

Roman: pȁrobrōd (sh) m
Slovene: parnik (sl) m
Spanish: barco de vapor m
Swedish: ångfartyg (sv) n, ångbåt (sv) c
Ukrainian: пароплав m (paropláv)

Verb

steamboat (third-person singular simple present steamboats, present participle steamboating, simple past and past participle steamboated)

To travel by steamboat.

Anagrams

boat mates, boatmates

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