Synonyms for boat
Synonyms by meaning
Noun
1. Ship — vessel for travelling by water. A small, usually open craft used for travelling over water, propelled by…
2. Land yacht — A car, especially a large or heavy one
3. Gravy boat
Definitions
- n. 1
Vessel for travelling by water. A small, usually open craft used for travelling over water, propelled by oars, motor or wind. Usually contrasted with "ship".
We can't get everything in the boat. We'll leave this stuff behind.
- n. 2
A car, especially a large or heavy one.
Near-synonyms: land yacht, sled
- n. 3
Vessel for travelling by water. A submarine.
- n. 4
Vessel for travelling by water. A large, ocean-going ship.
Related words
- Word family
- boatage boatbill boatel boater boatful boathouse boating boatkeeper
- Phrases
- float someone's boat go-fast boat cigarette boat gravy boat packet boat pleasure boat ship's boat solar boat
- Is a kind of
- watercraft vessel
Forms
- Plural
- boats → ships, vessels, watercrafts, crafts…
Example sentences
- ship Owing to the storm, the ship could not leave port.
- yacht The yacht was at the mercy of the dreadful storm.
- gondola You can navigate the canals of Venice by gondola.
By length
- 3 letters
- tug1, cog1
- 4 letters
- ship1, raft1, punt1, sled1, yawl, scow1
- 5 letters
- pilot2, craft1, yacht1, canoe2, barge1, skiff1, scull1
- 6 letters
- vessel2, cutter2, galley2, barque, argosy3, sampan2, wherry2
- 7 letters
- cruiser2, gondola3, pontoon2, trawler2, coracle3, towboat2, pinnace
- 8 letters
- longboat
- 9 letters
- catamaran4
- 10 letters
- watercraft
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (pilot2 = 2 syllables).