stowaway
/ˈstəʊəˌweɪ/
stowaway noun: a person who hides on board a ship, train, etc. so as to get a free passage.
Noun
stowaway (plural stowaways)
- A person who hides on board a ship, train, etc. so as to get a free passage.
- “Oh, I don't mind 'em, sir,” said Archy; “I knew it all before now. Didn't I hear 'em in the hold? And didn't I tell Cabaco here of it? What say ye, Cabaco? They are stowaways, Mr. Flask.”1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “The First Lowering”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 242
- In every sense of the expression he is ‘on deck’; but my Jim, for the most part, skulked down below as though he had been a stowaway.1899 September – 1900 July, Joseph Conrad, chapter XIX, in Lord Jim: A Tale, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, published 1900, →OCLC, page 213
stowaway meaning in Tamil, Bengali and Kannada
stowaway in Tamil
- புகுபயணி, புகுந்தப் பயணி, புகுசுமை, புகுசுமைப்பெட்டி, கட்டணமில்லாக் கரவுப் பயணி
stowaway in Bengali
- লুকিয়ে ভ্রমণকারী, চোরাযাত্রী
stowaway in Kannada
- ಕಳ್ಳಪ್ರಯಾಣಿಕ, ಬಚ್ಚಿಟ್ಟುಕೊಂಡಿರುವ ಪ್ರಯಾಣಿಕ
Examples of stowaway in a sentence
- One explanation came to me, and I leaped at it—the possibility of a stowaway hidden in the hold, some maniacal fugitive who had found in the little cargo boat’s empty hull ample room to hide.1914, Mary Roberts Rinehart, chapter VII, in The After House:
- My client is an infant, a poor foreign immigrant who started scratch as a stowaway and is now trying to turn an honest penny.1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[15]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC:
Forms of stowaway
| plural | stowaways |
|---|---|
| alternative form | stow-away |
Origin of stowaway
From stow away, from stow and away.
Questions about stowaway
- What does stowaway mean?
- Stowaway means a person who hides on board a ship, train, etc. so as to get a free passage.
- What is stowaway in Tamil?
- Stowaway in Tamil is புகுபயணி, புகுந்தப் பயணி, புகுசுமை. See Stowaway meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use stowaway in a sentence?
- One explanation came to me, and I leaped at it—the possibility of a stowaway hidden in the hold, some maniacal fugitive who had found in the little cargo boat’s empty hull ample room to hide.
- What part of speech is stowaway?
- Stowaway is a noun.
- How do you pronounce stowaway?
- Stowaway is pronounced /ˈstəʊəˌweɪ/.
- What is the plural of stowaway?
- The plural of stowaway is stowaways.
Words near stowaway in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: stowaway (page history and authors); stowaway (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); stowaway (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); stowaway (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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