steamboat
Pronunciation
  • (America) IPA: /ˈstimˌboʊt/
  • (British) IPA: /ˈstiːmˌbəʊt/
Noun

steamboat (plural steamboats)

  1. A boat or vessel propelled by steam power.
    • 1870, Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi, [https://web.archive.org/web/20140811201712/http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=%2Ftexts%2Fenglish%2Fmodeng%2Fpublicsearch%2Fmodengpub.o2w Chapter 3.]
      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.
  2. (Singapore, Malaysia) Hot pot (Chinese dish).
Synonyms Translations Verb

steamboat (steamboats, present participle steamboating; past and past participle steamboated)

  1. To travel by steamboat.



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