lifeboat
UK/ˈlaɪfˌbəʊt//ˈlaɪfˌboʊt/
lifeboat noun: a boat especially designed for saving the lives of shipwrecked people or people in distress at sea (either launched from the shore with a crew, or else carried on board a larger ship).
Noun
lifeboat (plural lifeboats)
- A boat especially designed for saving the lives of shipwrecked people or people in distress at sea (either launched from the shore with a crew, or else carried on board a larger ship).
- I've got a watch that turns into a lifeboat1971, Alice Cooper, Glen Buxton, Michael Bruce, Dennis Dunaway, Neal Smith, “Halo of Flies”, in Killer, performed by Alice Cooper
- In a corner of the churchyard, where old headstones mark the graves of many mariners, is a striking white statue of a lifeboatman, erected as a memorial to three members of the local lifeboat crew who lost their lives in 1916 while trying to reach a ship in distress.1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 322, about Port Eynon
- An emergency vehicle carried aboard a spaceship.
Verb
lifeboat (third-person singular simple present lifeboats, present participle lifeboating, simple past and past participle lifeboated)
lifeboat meaning in Tamil, Gujarati, Arabic and Indonesian
lifeboat in Tamil
- உயிர்க்காப்புப் படகு
lifeboat in Gujarati
- a boat to save shipwrecked people
- જીવાહોડી jīvāhoḍī
lifeboat in Arabic
- a boat to save shipwrecked people
- قَارِب نَجَاةَ qārib najāha
lifeboat in Indonesian
- a boat to save shipwrecked people
- sekoci
More languagesFewer languages
- lifeboat in Thai
- เรือชูชีพ
- lifeboat in Vietnamese
- xuồng cứu sinh
Examples of lifeboat in a sentence
- Admirably, he went down with his ship after the surviving crew got away in lifeboats.
- After the mutiny, the castaway ship's officers suffered a month at sea in the lifeboat.
- The lifeboat is only boardable when inflated.
Synonyms of lifeboat
Forms of lifeboat
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | lifeboats |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | lifeboats |
| present participle | lifeboating |
| past participle | lifeboated |
| past | lifeboated |
Origin of lifeboat
From life + boat.
Words formed from lifeboat
Questions about lifeboat
- What does lifeboat mean?
- Lifeboat means a boat especially designed for saving the lives of shipwrecked people or people in distress at sea (either launched from the shore with a crew, or else carried on board a larger ship).
- What is lifeboat in Tamil?
- Lifeboat in Tamil is உயிர்க்காப்புப் படகு. See Lifeboat meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is lifeboat?
- Lifeboat can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce lifeboat?
- Lifeboat is pronounced /ˈlaɪfˌbəʊt/ (UK).
- What is the plural of lifeboat?
- The plural of lifeboat is lifeboats.
Words near lifeboat in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: lifeboat (page history and authors); lifeboat (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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