English Explanatory Dictionary

boat

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A craft used for transportation of goods, fishing, racing, recreational cruising, or military use on or in the water, propelled by oars or outboard motor or inboard motor or by wind.
  2. A full house.
  3. A conveyance, utensil, or dish somewhat resembling a boat in shape.
  4. A large and heavy car; the term connotes wasteful size.
  5. One of two possible conformations of cyclohexane rings (the other being chair), shaped roughly like a boat.
  6. The refugee boats arriving in Australian waters, and by extension, refugees generally.
  7. In Conway’s Game of Life, a particular still life consisting of a dead cell surrounded by five living cells.
  8. Alternative form of BOAT.
verb
  1. To travel by boat.
  2. To transport in a boat.
  3. To transport (deport to a penal colony).
  4. To place in a boat.
noun
  1. Acronym of best of all time.
  2. Acronym of byway open to all traffic.
name
  1. Acronym of brightest of all time (“the brightest gamma-ray burst ever recorded in the universe”).
noun
  1. Alternative form of BOAT.
noun
  1. Alternative form of BOAT.

Pronunciation

/ˈbəʊ̯t/ /ˈboʊ̯t/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Naomi Persephone Amethyst (NaomiAmethyst)-boat.wav en-us-boat.ogg /ˈbəʉ̯t/ EN-AU ck1 boat.ogg /bot/ /boːt/

Word forms

boat boats boating boated B.O.A.T. B. O. A. T.

Etymology

From Middle English bot, boot, boet, boyt (“boat”), from Old English bāt (“boat”), from Proto-West Germanic *bait, from Proto-Germanic *baitaz, *baitą (“boat, small ship”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyd- (“to break, split”) (whence also fissure via Latin). Cognate with Old Norse beit (“boat”), Middle Dutch beitel (“little boat”). Old Norse bátr (whence Icelandic bátur, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish båt, Danish båd), Dutch boot, German Boot, Occitan batèl and French bateau are all ultimately borrowings from the Old English word. Compare typologically ship << Proto-Indo-European *skey-; Russian долблёнка (dolbljónka) (< долби́ть (dolbítʹ)), Russian чёлн (čoln) (akin to коло́ть (kolótʹ)).

Synonyms

craft ship vessel land yacht sled

Related words

all-time GOAT of all time WOAT

Derived words

Adirondack boat Adirondack guide boat advice boat aeroboat airboat autoboat bait boat banana boat bareboat bass boat belly boat boatable boatage boat anchor boatbearer boat bearer boatbill boatbound boat boy boat bug boatbuilder boatbuilding boat cloak boat conformation boatcraft boatel botel boater boatercycle boatful boat-hook boat hook boathook boathorse boathouse boatie boat-in boating boat-in theater boat-in theatre boatish boatkeeper boatlength boatless boatlet boat lift boatlift boatlike boatload boatmaker boatmaking boatman boatsman boatmanship boatsmanship boatmaster boat mate boatmate boatmobile boat money
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