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cruise

/kɹuːz/

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British/kɹʉwz/

cruise noun: a sea or lake voyage, especially one taken for pleasure.

Noun (1)

cruise (plural cruises)

  1. A sea or lake voyage, especially one taken for pleasure.
    • Judge Short had gone to town, and Farrar was off for a three days' cruise up the lake. I was bitterly regretting I had not gone with him when the distant notes of a coach horn reached my ear, and I descried a four-in-hand winding its way up the inn road from the direction of Mohair.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC
    • He departed with the Naniwa and the Hashidate²⁰ for a two day cruise, skirting the Wuchiu and Hui Ch’uan Islands and the shore of Fukien Province.1936, Edwin A. Falk, Togo and the Rise of Japanese Sea Power, Longmans, Green and Co., →OCLC, →OL, page 229
  2. Portion of aircraft travel at a constant airspeed and altitude between ascent and descent phases.
  3. (US, informal) A period spent in the Marine Corps.
    • I ended my cruise of four years in the Marine Corps at the first Officers' Training Camp for enlisted men at Quantico […]1919, United States. Marine Corps, Recruiters' Bulletin, page 16
    • The New Orleans had to have numerous alterations made, and as the Chicago was just about going into commission, I was ordered to that ship to finish my cruise.2015, George Barnett, Andy Barnett, George Barnett, Marine Corps Commandant: A Memoir, 1877-1923
  4. A car enthusiasts' event where they drive their vehicles in a group.
    • Near-synonym: car show
    Synonyms:
    car show
  5. (slang) A period of reducing the dosage of PEDs instead of cycling them off as opposed to a full-dosed cycle (blast).

Verb

cruise (third-person singular simple present cruises, present participle cruising, simple past and past participle cruised)

  1. (intransitive) To sail about, especially for pleasure.
    • the romance of cruising down the Nile
    • He and Gerald usually challenged the rollers in a sponson canoe when Gerald was there for the weekend; or, when Lansing came down, the two took long swims seaward or cruised about in Gerald's dory, clad in their swimming-suits; and Selwyn's youth became renewed in a manner almost ridiculous,[…].1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter IX, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC
  2. (intransitive) To travel at constant speed for maximum operating efficiency.
  3. (transitive) To move about an area leisurely in the hope of discovering something, or looking for custom.
  4. (ambitransitive) To inspect (forest land) for the purpose of estimating the quantity of lumber it will yield.
  5. (ambitransitive, colloquial) To actively seek a romantic partner or casual sexual partner by moving about a particular area; to troll.
  6. (colloquial, transitive) To attempt to pick up as a casual sexual partner; hit on
    • Lot of not too bad looking boys there but when M came in I knew right then: him. Very thin & feminine, brown hair fluffed around his sharp featured face. So I began cruising him.1970-1975, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
    • I saw you cruise that white guy over there.
      The one with the wavy hair (yeah).
      I cruised him too, but I couldn't get through.1986, Blackberri, “Beautiful Blackman”, in Joseph Beam, editor, In The Life: A Black Gay Anthology, page 59
  7. (intransitive, child development) To walk while holding on to an object (stage in development of ambulation, typically occurring at 10 months).
  8. (intransitive) To win easily and convincingly.
    • Germany cruised to a World Cup victory over the short-handed Australians.
  9. (intransitive) To take part in a cruise (car enthusiasts' event where they drive their vehicles in a group).
  10. (slang) To have a period of reducing the dosage of PEDs instead of cycling them off as opposed to going through a full-dosed cycle (blast).
    • blast and cruise

Noun (2)

cruise (plural cruises)

  1. A small cup; cruse.
    • And she said, As the Lord thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse: and, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.King James translators, 1 Kings 17:12

Proper noun capitalized: Cruise

Cruise

  1. A surname from Anglo-Norman.

cruise meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

cruise in Hindi

क्रूज

cruise in Tamil

கலத்தூர்

cruise in Marathi

क्रूझ

cruise in Urdu

کروز, کروز کریں, کروز کرنا
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cruise in Bengali
সমুদ্রভ্রমণ
cruise in Telugu
క్రూయిజ్, క్రూయిజ్ చెయ్యడానికి
cruise in Malayalam
കപ്പൽയാത്ര, സമുദ്രയാത്ര
cruise in Kannada
ಮೋಜಿನ ಕಡಲಯಾನ, ವಿಹಾರ ನೌಕಾಯಾನ, ಸಮುದ್ರದಲ್ಲಿ ವಿಹಾರಯಾನ ಮಾಡು, ಖುಷಿಗಾಗಿ ಮಂದಗತಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಸಮುದ್ರಯಾನ ಮಾಡು
cruise in Punjabi
ਕਰੂਜ਼, ਕਰੂਜ਼ ਕਰਨ ਲਈ
cruise in Gujarati
ક્રૂઝ, ક્રુઝ, ક્રૂઝ કરો
cruise in Odia
କ୍ରୁଜ୍, କ୍ରୁଜ
cruise in Nepali
क्रूज, क्रुज, क्रूज गर्न
cruise in Arabic
رِحْلَة بَحْرِيَّة riḥla baḥriyya

Examples of cruise in a sentence

  • We were cruising along at well over the speed limit of fifty miles per hour.
  • After losing my job, there's frail hope of affording my world cruise.
  • Cruising was a popular pastime for teens in this area at the time.

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Synonyms of cruise

Forms of cruise

Noun
pluralcruises
alternative form (obsolete)cruize
Verb
third-person singular presentcruises
present participlecruising
past participlecruised
pastcruised
Proper noun
alternative formCruce
alternative formCruse

Past tense of cruise: cruised

Plural of cruise: cruises

Origin of cruise

Borrowed from Dutch kruisen (“cross, sail around”), from kruis (“cross”), from Middle Dutch cruce, from Latin crux.

Words formed from cruise

Phrases with cruise

Words that rhyme with cruise

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Questions about cruise

What does cruise mean?
Cruise means a sea or lake voyage, especially one taken for pleasure.
What is cruise in Hindi?
Cruise in Hindi is क्रूज. See Cruise meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is cruise?
Cruise can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce cruise?
Cruise is pronounced /kɹuːz/ (UK).
What is the plural of cruise?
The plural of cruise is cruises.

Words near cruise in the dictionary

  1. Cruickshanks
  2. Cruikshank
  3. Cruikshankian
  4. Cruikshanks
  5. cruisable
  6. cruise
  7. cruise car
  8. cruise cars
  9. cruise climb
  10. cruise climbed
  11. cruise climbing

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: cruise (page history and authors); Cruise (page history and authors); cruise (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cruise (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); cruise (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cruise (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cruise (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); cruise (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cruise (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); cruise (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); cruise (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cruise (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cruise (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cruise (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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