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regatta

/ɹɪˈɡætə/

regatta noun: a series of boat races, or sometimes a single race.

Noun

regatta (countable and uncountable, plural regattas or regatte)

  1. (countable) A series of boat races, or sometimes a single race.
    • […] many people living along the harbour front had boathouses and boats of their own, for regattas and water sports were one of Victoria's chief attractions.1942, Emily Carr, “Regatta”, in The Book of Small, Toronto, Ont.: Oxford University Press, →OCLC
    • The novice eights race demonstrated one of the reasons UVa manages to be so good year after year; the UVa novs finished first and second in the event, while Clemson's novice crew, the surprise of the regatta, took third.1999, Oli Rosenbladt, “Virginia Women Sweep Rivanna Romp”, in Rowing News, volume 6, number 21, page 8
  2. A striped cotton fabric.
  3. (collective) A group of swans on the water.
    • As he quietly planned out the unfolding day ahead of him, his attention was drawn to a regatta of swans drawing close to the bank of the river.2026, Mick Vincent, It's Our Secret, Troubadour Publishing Limited
    • The mind returns to water meadows on the Risle and the Test, and the Traun with its petulant regatta of swans, where we fished from the timber walkways and stayed in the little fishing hotel at Marien- brucke.1972, Ernest George Schwiebert, Remembrances of Rivers Past, Macmillan, page 15

regatta meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam

regatta in Tamil

படகுத் திரளணி, போட்டிப் பந்தயப் படகுக் குழுமம், கட்டத் துணிவகை

regatta in Urdu

ناؤ دوڑ, سفینہ رانی

regatta in Bengali

নৌকা বাইচ প্রতিযোগিতা

regatta in Malayalam

boat race
വള്ളംകളി vaḷḷaṅkaḷi
More languagesFewer languages
regatta in Kannada
ಓಡಪೋಟಿ, ದೋಣಿಗಳ ಪಂದ್ಯ, ದೋಣಿ ವಿಹಾರ
regatta in Malay
regata, perlumbaan perahu

Examples of regatta in a sentence

  • The sailors of the regatta are going to wait out this weather before they set sail.
  • Three days of festivities included regatte and war games.
  • There was a second kind, the so-called regatte, representing an ordinary knot from which two long ends of ribbon hung down.

All 10 example sentences with regatta

Forms of regatta

pluralregattas
pluralregatte

Plural of regatta: regattas or regatte

Origin of regatta

From Italian (Venetian dialect) regatta (“contention for mastery”), from regattare (“compete, haggle, sell at retail”), possibly from ricattare; or from Italian regata (“boat race, regatta”), via Vulgar Latin *aurigata from Latin auriga.

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Phrases with regatta

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Questions about regatta

What does regatta mean?
Regatta means a series of boat races, or sometimes a single race.
What is regatta in Tamil?
Regatta in Tamil is படகுத் திரளணி, போட்டிப் பந்தயப் படகுக் குழுமம், கட்டத் துணிவகை. See Regatta meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is regatta?
Regatta is a noun.
How do you pronounce regatta?
Regatta is pronounced /ɹɪˈɡætə/.
What is the plural of regatta?
The plural of regatta is regattas.

Words near regatta in the dictionary

  1. regassing
  2. regather
  3. regathered
  4. regathering
  5. regathers
  6. regatta
  7. Regatta Point
  8. regattas
  9. regatte
  10. regauge
  11. regauged

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: regatta (page history and authors); regatta (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); regatta (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); regatta (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); regatta (Kannada 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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