boats
UK/bəʊts//boʊts/
boats is the plural of boat.
boats is the third-person singular simple present indicative of boat.
Meaning of boat
Noun
boat (plural boats)
- A small, usually open craft used for travelling over water, propelled by oars, motor or wind. Usually contrasted with "ship".
- We can't get everything in the boat. We'll leave this stuff behind.
- A submarine.
- A large, ocean-going ship.
- A shallow jug used to serve sauces or other liquid foods.
- a stone boat; a gravy boat
- A vessel used to store the incense to be burned during a service; an incense boat.
- And then when all were vested he had stood holding out the boat to the rector and the rector had put a spoonful of incense in it and it had hissed on the red coals.1916, James Joyce, chapter I, in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, →OCLC
- A full house.
Noun capitalized: BOATs
BOATs
- plural of BOAT
Phrases with boats
- PT boats
- buy boats
- gas boats
- gun boats
- ice boats
- jet boats
- log boats
- pap boats
- tea boats
- tug boats
- Una boats
- bait boats
99 more phrasesFewer phrases
- bass boats
- deck boats
- dive boats
- drag boats
- fold boats
- full boats
- goat boats
- head boats
- hong boats
- kick boats
- life boats
- maxi boats
- Mike boats
- surf boats
- swan boats
- well boats
- York boats
- belly boats
- canal boats
- chain boats
- couta boats
- crash boats
- creek boats
- ferry boats
- Frito boats
- gravy boats
- jolly boats
- motor boats
- party boats
- pedal boats
- pilot boats
- river boats
- sauce boats
- solar boats
- speed boats
- stake boats
- swamp boats
- swift boats
- trail boats
- weigh boats
- white boats
- advice boats
- banana boats
- bunder boats
- butter boats
- diving boats
- douche boats
- dragon boats
- Durham boats
- flying boats
- monkey boats
- muscle boats
- mussel boats
- narrow boats
- packet boats
- paddle boats
- patrol boats
- picket boats
- pickle boats
- poling boats
- rowing boats
- ship's boats
- shrimp boats
- disease boats
- fishing boats
- go-fast boats
- Higgins boats
- incense boats
- masoola boats
- sailing boats
- torpedo boats
- cannibal boats
- lift all boats
- longtail boats
- mackinaw boats
- Massoola boats
- pleasure boats
- weighing boats
- cigarette boats
- husbands' boats
- lifts all boats
- long-tail boats
- Adirondack boats
- burn one's boats
- ice dragon boats
- lifted all boats
- burns one's boats
- burnt one's boats
- drag racing boats
- drag-racing boats
- lifting all boats
- burned one's boats
- glass-bottom boats
- swordfishing boats
- burning one's boats
- coastal motor boats
- motor torpedo boats
- Adirondack guide boats
- a rising tide lifts all boats
Words that rhyme with boats
Questions about boats
- What is boats the plural of?
- Boats is the plural of boat.
- What part of speech is boats?
- Boats is a noun.
- How do you pronounce boats?
- Boats is pronounced /bəʊts/ (UK).
Words near boats in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: boats (page history and authors); BOATs (page history and authors); boat (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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