name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
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Standard Lemma guide
sloop
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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slo͞op
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/sluːp/
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Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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rhymes with -uːp
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CMU ARPABET: S L UW1 P Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A single-masted sailboat with only one headsail.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: nautical, transport
Examples
- 1789, Olaudah Equiano (Gustavus Vassa), The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, I stayed in this island for a few days; I believe it could not be above a fortnight; when I and some few more slaves, that were not saleable amongst the rest, from very much fretting, were shipped off in a sloop for North America.
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noun
Meaning 3
A sailing warship, smaller than a frigate, with its guns all on one deck.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: government, military, politics, war
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noun
Meaning 4
A sloop-of-war, smaller than a frigate, larger than a corvette.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: government, military, politics, war
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noun
Meaning 5
a sailing vessel with a single mast set about one third of the boat's length aft of the bow
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
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Broader terms: sailing vessel, sailing ship
Narrower terms: knockabout, raceabout
History
Etymology
Borrowed from Dutch sloep. Doublet of chalupa and shallop.
Across languages
Translations
35 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Belarusian: шлюп (šljup) — single-masted sailboat
- Bulgarian: платноходка (platnohodka) — single-masted sailboat
- Catalan: sloop — single-masted sailboat
- Catalan: balandra — single-masted sailboat
- Chinese Mandarin: 單桅帆船 /单桅帆船 (dānwéi fánchuán) — single-masted sailboat
- Czech: šalupa — single-masted sailboat
- Danish: slup — single-masted sailboat
- Dutch: sloep — single-masted sailboat
- Estonian: luup — single-masted sailboat
- Faroese: slupp — single-masted sailboat
- Finnish: sluuppi — single-masted sailboat
- French: sloop — single-masted sailboat
- Georgian: კანჯო (ḳanǯo) — single-masted sailboat
- German: Slup — single-masted sailboat
- German: Schaluppe — single-masted sailboat
- Icelandic: slúppa — single-masted sailboat
- Ido: slupo — single-masted sailboat
- Italian: sloop — single-masted sailboat
- Japanese: スループ (surūpu) — single-masted sailboat
- Norwegian Bokmål: slupp — single-masted sailboat
- Norwegian Nynorsk: slupp — single-masted sailboat
- Polish: slup — single-masted sailboat
- Portuguese: chalupa — single-masted sailboat
- Russian: шлюп (šljup) — single-masted sailboat
- Serbo-Croatian: слуп — single-masted sailboat
- Serbo-Croatian: slup — single-masted sailboat
- Slovak: šalupa — single-masted sailboat
- Slovene: slup — single-masted sailboat
- Spanish: balandra — single-masted sailboat
- Spanish: chalupa — single-masted sailboat
- Swedish: slup — single-masted sailboat
- Thai: สลุบ (sà-lùp) — single-masted sailboat
- Turkish: slup — single-masted sailboat
- Ukrainian: шлюп (šljup) — single-masted sailboat
- Volapük: jalup — single-masted sailboat
Real reading context