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Plural of houseboat

regular plural

The plural of houseboat is houseboats.

Forms of houseboat

Singularhouseboat /ˈhaʊsˌboʊt/
Pluralhouseboats
Countablecountable

Houseboats in a sentence

  • Graceful old houses stand by the edge of the Great Ouse and gaze down at the houseboats, skiffs and motor-cruisers that moor there.1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications, page 223, about Hemingford Grey
  • “Some had called them a 'swampbilly' because they lived in shanty houseboats,” he said.2018, Dr. Daniene Marciano, Pillars of a Legacy: An Italian Experience, Dog Ear Publishing, →ISBN, page 247. From the entry swampbilly

Meaning of houseboat

  1. noun A vessel, such as a barge, used as a dwelling.

Full definition of houseboat

Questions about the plural of houseboat

What is the plural of houseboat?
The plural of houseboat is houseboats.
Is houseboat countable?
Houseboat is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: houseboat (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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