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hovercraft

/ˈhɒv.ə.kɹɑːft/US/ˈhʌvɚ.kɹæft/

hovercraft noun: a vehicle supported on a cushion of air, able to traverse many different types of terrain and travel over water, used for transport.

hovercraft: a vehicle supported on a cushion of air, able to traverse many different types of terrain and...
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Noun

hovercraft (plural hovercraft or (nonstandard) hovercrafts)

  1. (genericized trademark) A vehicle supported on a cushion of air, able to traverse many different types of terrain and travel over water, used for transport.
    • The snapshot shows the whale parallel above the water almost as if it’s competing in belly-flop contest, doing a midair plank or floating across the bay like a hovercraft.2022 July 24, Morgan Krakow, “It began as a typical ferry ride in Kachemak Bay. Then a minke whale went airborne.”, in Anchorage Daily News, archived from the original on 27 Mar 2023

hovercraft meaning in Tamil, Arabic, Malay and Indonesian

hovercraft in Tamil

மெத்தூர்தி

hovercraft in Arabic

vehicle supported on a cushion of air
حَوَّامَة ḥawwāma

hovercraft in Malay

vehicle supported on a cushion of air
hoverkraf

hovercraft in Indonesian

vehicle supported on a cushion of air
kapal katung, kapal bantalan udara
More languagesFewer languages
hovercraft in Persian
هواناو
hovercraft in Vietnamese
ca nô đệm khí

Synonyms of hovercraft

Forms of hovercraft

pluralhovercraft
plural (nonstandard)hovercrafts

Plural of hovercraft: hovercraft

Origin of hovercraft

From hover + -craft. Originally a trademark by Saunders-Roe Limited, a British aero- and marine-engineering company.

Words formed from hovercraft

  • hovercrafter
  • hovercraftful
  • hovercraftlike

Questions about hovercraft

What does hovercraft mean?
Hovercraft means a vehicle supported on a cushion of air, able to traverse many different types of terrain and travel over water, used for transport.
What is hovercraft in Tamil?
Hovercraft in Tamil is மெத்தூர்தி. See Hovercraft meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is hovercraft?
Hovercraft is a noun.
How do you pronounce hovercraft?
Hovercraft is pronounced /ˈhɒv.ə.kɹɑːft/ (UK).
What is the plural of hovercraft?
The plural of hovercraft is hovercraft.

Words near hovercraft in the dictionary

  1. hovercard
  2. hovercards
  3. hovercars
  4. hoverchair
  5. hoverchairs
  6. hovercraft
  7. hovercrafts
  8. hovercycle
  9. hovercycles
  10. hovered
  11. hoveredst

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: hovercraft (page history and authors); hovercraft (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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