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steamboatmen

steamboatmen is the plural of steamboatman.

Meaning of steamboatman

Noun

steamboatman (plural steamboatmen)

  1. A person employed in the steamboat industry, especially one working on a steamboat.
    • When I was a boy, there was but one permanent ambition among my comrades in our village on the west bank of the Mississippi River. That was, to be a steamboatman.1870, Mark Twain, chapter 4, in Life on the Mississippi

Questions about steamboatmen

What is steamboatmen the plural of?
Steamboatmen is the plural of steamboatman.

Words near steamboatmen in the dictionary

  1. steamboater
  2. steamboaters
  3. steamboating
  4. steamboatings
  5. steamboatman
  6. steamboatmen
  7. steamboats
  8. steamcar
  9. steamcars
  10. steamchest
  11. steamchests

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