steamboat
Syllables: steam·boatUK/ˈstiːmˌbəʊt//ˈstimˌboʊt/
steamboat noun: a boat or vessel propelled by steam power.
Noun
steamboat (countable and uncountable, plural steamboats)
- A boat or vessel propelled by steam power.
- By and by the steamboat intruded. Then for fifteen or twenty years, these men continued to run their keelboats down-stream, and the steamers did all of the upstream business, the keelboatmen selling their boats in New Orleans, and returning home as deck passengers in the steamers.1870, Mark Twain, chapter 3, in Life on the Mississippi
- Hot pot (Chinese dish).
- A metal pan, sometimes divided into sections or having a central flue, for heating this kind of hot pot.
Verb
steamboat (third-person singular simple present steamboats, present participle steamboating, simple past and past participle steamboated)
- To travel by steamboat.
Proper noun capitalized: Steamboat
Steamboat
- Ellipsis of Steamboat Springs: a city, the county seat of Routt County, Colorado, United States.
- A neighborhood of Steamboat Springs, Washoe, Nevada, United States.
- A census-designated place in Apache County, Arizona, United States
steamboat meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
steamboat in Hindi
- vessel powered by steam
- स्टीमर sṭīmar
steamboat in Tamil
- நீராவிப் படகு, ஸ்டீம்போட்
steamboat in Marathi
- स्टीमबोट
steamboat in Urdu
- اسٹیم بوٹ, سٹیم بوٹ, اسٹیم بوٹنگ
More languagesFewer languages
- steamboat in Bengali
- স্টিমার sṭimar
- steamboat in Telugu
- స్టీమ్ బోట్, స్టీమ్బోట్, స్టీమ్ బోటింగ్
- steamboat in Malayalam
- സ്റ്റീം ബോട്ട്, സ്റ്റീംബോട്ട്, സ്റ്റീം ബോട്ടിംഗ്
- steamboat in Kannada
- ಸ್ಟೀಮ್ ಬೋಟ್, ಸ್ಟೀಮ್ಬೋಟ್, ಸ್ಟೀಮ್ ಬೋಟಿಂಗ್
- steamboat in Punjabi
- ਸਟੀਮਬੋਟ, ਸਟੀਮਬੋਟਿੰਗ
- steamboat in Gujarati
- સ્ટીમબોટ, સ્ટીમબોટ કરવા માટે
- steamboat in Odia
- ଷ୍ଟିମବୋଟ, ଷ୍ଟିମବୋଟ୍, ଷ୍ଟିମବଟ୍
- steamboat in Nepali
- स्टीमबोट, स्टिमबोट, स्टीमबोट गर्न
- steamboat in Tagalog
- bapor
- steamboat in Arabic
- بَاخِرَة bāḵira, سَفِينَة بُخَارِيَّة safīna buḵāriyya
- steamboat in Indonesian
- kapal uap
- steamboat in Thai
- เรือไฟ rʉʉa-fai, เรือจักรไอน้ำ
- steamboat in Vietnamese
- thuyền hơi nước
Examples of steamboat in a sentence
- He could always just leave on the next train to Nanking, or the little steamboat to Soochow.
- The truth is that nobody remembered; they had all been absolutely steamboats.
- Here, for the first time, it becomes navigable for junks and steamboats.
Synonyms of steamboat
Forms of steamboat
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | steamboats |
| alternative form | steam-boat |
| alternative form | steam boat |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | steamboats |
| present participle | steamboating |
| past participle | steamboated |
| past | steamboated |
Origin of steamboat
Compound of steam + boat.
Ellipsis of Steamboat Springs.
Words formed from steamboat
Words that rhyme with steamboat
Questions about steamboat
- What does steamboat mean?
- Steamboat means a boat or vessel propelled by steam power.
- What is steamboat in Hindi?
- Steamboat in Hindi is स्टीमर (sṭīmar). See Steamboat meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is steamboat?
- Steamboat can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce steamboat?
- Steamboat is pronounced /ˈstimˌboʊt/ (US).
- What is the plural of steamboat?
- The plural of steamboat is steamboats.
Words near steamboat in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: steamboat (page history and authors); Steamboat (page history and authors); steamboat (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); steamboat (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); steamboat (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); steamboat (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); steamboat (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); steamboat (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); steamboat (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); steamboat (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); steamboat (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); steamboat (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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