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ferryboat

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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Pronunciation

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  • General-American: /ˈfɛɹiˌboʊt/
  • Received-Pronunciation: /ˈfɛɹiˌbəʊt/
  • US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • CMU ARPABET: F EH1 R IY0 B OW2 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

A boat used to ferry passengers, vehicles, or goods across open water, especially one that runs to a regular schedule

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: nautical, transport

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

a boat that transports people or vehicles across a body of water and operates on a regular schedule

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: ferry

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: boat

Narrower terms: car-ferry

History

Etymology

From ferry + boat.

Across languages

Translations

35 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Armenian: լաստանավ (lastanav) — boat
  • Catalan: transbordador — boat
  • Catalan: ferri — boat
  • Dutch: veerboot — boat
  • Esperanto: pramo — boat
  • Finnish: lautta — boat
  • Finnish: autolautta — boat
  • French: ferry — boat
  • German: Fährboot — boat
  • German: Fährschiff — boat
  • German: Fähre — boat
  • German: Überfuhr — boat
  • Irish: bád farantóireachta — boat
  • Irish: bád fartha. — boat
  • Irish: bád calaidh — boat
  • Korean: 연락선 (yeollakseon) — boat
  • Latin: pontō — boat
  • Malayalam: കടത്തുവള്ളം (kaṭattuvaḷḷaṁ) — boat
  • Malayalam: കടത്തുതോണി (kaṭattutōṇi) — boat
  • Pannonian Rusyn: траєкт (trajekt) — boat
  • Polish: prom — boat
  • Portuguese: ferryboat — boat
  • Portuguese: ferry — boat
  • Portuguese: balsa — boat
  • Russian: паро́м (paróm) — boat
  • Sicilian: ferrubbottu — boat
  • Spanish: ferry — boat
  • Spanish: transbordador — boat
  • Spanish: barco — boat
  • Spanish: ferri — boat
  • Turkish: araba vapuru — boat
  • Turkish: feribot — boat
  • Volapük: lovenaf — boat
  • Volapük: lovebot — boat
  • Volapük: lovenaföm — boat