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sailboat

UK/ˈseɪlˌbəʊt/US/ˈseɪlˌboʊt/

sailboat noun: a boat propelled by a sail.

sailboat: a boat propelled by a sail
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Noun

sailboat (plural sailboats)

  1. A boat propelled by a sail.
  2. (slang) A playing card with the rank of four.

Verb

sailboat (third-person singular simple present sailboats, present participle sailboating, simple past and past participle sailboated)

  1. To travel by sailboat.

sailboat meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Kannada and Malay

sailboat in Hindi

a boat propelled by a sail
पालनौका pālnaukā

sailboat in Urdu

sailboat, sailing boat
بادبانی کشتی bādabānī kaśtī

sailboat in Kannada

a boat propelled by a sail
ಹಾಯಿಹಡಗು hāyihaḍagu

sailboat in Malay

a boat propelled by a sail
perahu layar
More languagesFewer languages
sailboat in Persian
قایق بادبانی qâyeq-e bâdbâni
sailboat in Thai
เรือใบ reua bai

Examples of sailboat in a sentence

  • Watch that small sailboat; see how Stephanie mans the rudder?
  • A gold tie clip was made in the shape of a sailboat.
  • I'm a technonerd about all things that concern airplanes and sailboats.

All 11 example sentences with sailboat

Synonyms of sailboat

Forms of sailboat

Noun
pluralsailboats
alternative formsail-boat
alternative formsailing boat
Verb
third-person singular presentsailboats
present participlesailboating
past participlesailboated
pastsailboated

Plural of sailboat: sailboats

Origin of sailboat

From sail + boat.

Words formed from sailboat

Questions about sailboat

What does sailboat mean?
Sailboat means a boat propelled by a sail.
What is sailboat in Hindi?
Sailboat in Hindi is पालनौका (pālnaukā). See Sailboat meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is sailboat?
Sailboat can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce sailboat?
Sailboat is pronounced /ˈseɪlˌbəʊt/ (UK).
What is the plural of sailboat?
The plural of sailboat is sailboats.

Words near sailboat in the dictionary

  1. sailboarded
  2. sailboarder
  3. sailboarders
  4. sailboarding
  5. sailboards
  6. sailboat
  7. sailboat fuel
  8. sailboated
  9. sailboater
  10. sailboaters
  11. sailboating

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: sailboat (page history and authors); بادبانی کشتی (Urdu) (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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