yacht
/jɒt//jɑt/
yacht noun: a slick and light ship for making pleasure trips or racing on water, having sails but often motor-powered. At times used as a residence offshore on a dock.
Noun
yacht (plural yachts)
- A slick and light ship for making pleasure trips or racing on water, having sails but often motor-powered. At times used as a residence offshore on a dock.
- Would you like to go sailing on my uncle’s yacht?
- You are a true yachtsman! Are you a member of the local yacht club?
- Any vessel used for private, noncommercial purposes.
- “I don’t mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera,[…], the chlorotic squatters on huge yachts,[…], the neurotic victims of mental cirrhosis, the jewelled animals whose moral...1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter VI, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC
- The megayacht concept is equipped with its own port with enough space for a second yacht measuring up to 30 meters, as well as three swimming pools. […] The market is projected to reach a value of $10.2 billion by 2025 as an increasing amount of yachts measuring longer than 24 meters are ordered...2020 November 25, Tamara Hardingham-Gill, “The $550 million megayacht concept that looks like a shark”, in CNN
Verb
yacht (third-person singular simple present yachts, present participle yachting, simple past and past participle yachted)
Proper noun capitalized: Yacht
Yacht
- A type of dice game, similar to the Latin American game Generala.
yacht meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
yacht in Hindi
- slick and light ship
- याख़्ट yāxṭ
yacht in Tamil
- பாய்மரப்படகு, வளிப்படகு
yacht in Urdu
- بجرا, ڈونگی, تفریحی کشتی
yacht in Bengali
- বাইচ খেলা
More languagesFewer languages
- yacht in Malayalam
- വിനോദക്കപ്പൽ, ചെറുകടത്തുകപ്പൽ, ഉല്ലാസബോട്ട്, കളിവള്ളം
- yacht in Punjabi
- ਯਾਟ
- yacht in Gujarati
- યાટ
- yacht in Odia
- ଯ଼ଟ୍
- yacht in Nepali
- याट
- yacht in Tagalog
- yate
- yacht in Arabic
- يَخْت yaḵt
- yacht in Malay
- kapal pesiar
- yacht in Persian
- یات yât
- yacht in Thai
- เรือใบ rʉʉa-bai, ยอชต์, เรือยอชต์
- yacht in Vietnamese
- du thuyền
- yacht in Myanmar
- ရွက်လှေ rwakhle
Examples of yacht in a sentence
- It's a peaceful marina with not too many boats and yachts.
- Since then, the ex-minister has been in absentia, likely relaxing on his private yacht.
- Cedric claimed his old yacht could make 12 knots.
Forms of yacht
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | yachts |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | yachts |
| present participle | yachting |
| past participle | yachted |
| past | yachted |
Origin of yacht
Circa 1557; variant of yaught, earlier yeaghe (“light, fast-sailing ship”), from Dutch jacht (“yacht; hunt”), in older spelling jaght(e), short for jaghtschip (“light sailing vessel, fast pirate ship”, literally “pursuit ship”), compound of jacht and schip (“ship”). In the 16th century the Dutch built light, fast ships to chase the ships of pirates and smugglers from the coast. The ship was introduced to England in 1660 when the Dutch East India Company presented one to King Charles II, who used it as a pleasure boat, after which it was copied by British shipbuilders as a pleasure craft for wealthy gentlemen.
Words formed from yacht
- aeroyacht
- gigayacht
- ice yacht
- land yacht
- maxi yacht
- megayacht
- miniyacht
- motor yacht
- motoryacht
- MY
- sailing yacht
- steam yacht
- SY
- sand yacht
- superyacht
- yachtboard
- yacht club
- yachtdom
- yachtee
- yachter
- yachtful
- yachtie
- yachting
- yachtist
- yachtless
- yachtlike
- yachtman
- yachtperson
- yacht person
- yacht rock
- yachtsfolk
- yachtsman
- yachtsperson
- yachtswoman
- yachtwear
- yachty
Phrases with yacht
Words that rhyme with yacht
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- blot
- rot
- apricot
- ribat
- bot
- got
- not
- red-hot
- snot
- stot
- tot
- calotte
- jot
- a lot
- allot
- clot
- cot
- fembot
- frot
- mot
- quat
- swot
- white-hot
- begot
- cannot
- forgot
- garrote
- grot
- marotte
- not so hot
- nott
- Nouakchott
- overshot
- piping hot
- scot
- scrot
- sot
- subplot
- swat
- thot
- wot
- asquat
- beach ball plot
- besot
- brat
- carotte
- chamotte
- chott
Questions about yacht
- What does yacht mean?
- Yacht means a slick and light ship for making pleasure trips or racing on water, having sails but often motor-powered. At times used as a residence offshore on a dock.
- What is yacht in Hindi?
- Yacht in Hindi is याख़्ट (yāxṭ). See Yacht meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is yacht?
- Yacht can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce yacht?
- Yacht is pronounced /jɒt/ (UK).
- What is the plural of yacht?
- The plural of yacht is yachts.
Words near yacht in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: yacht (page history and authors); Yacht (page history and authors); yacht (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); yacht (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); yacht (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); yacht (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); yacht (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); yacht (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); yacht (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); yacht (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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