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noun as in pleasure boat

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• cabin cruiser
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noun as in vehicle for water travel

noun as in a boat propelled with wind by sailcloth

• gaff-rigged sailboat
• wooden boat

noun as in boat

Example Sentences

As City News explained it, the bribes were paid not only in cash but through rugs, antiques, furniture, yacht club fees, boat repairs and more.

In Ashburn, Snyder is always lurking in spirit, even if he is on his 305-foot yacht somewhere in the Aegean.

Driving across country in a gigantic land yacht—with its crushed-velour seats and faux wood siding—was more practical than a two-door hot rod.

Host Jason Moore chats with experts who share tips harvested from their real-life experiences, such as a couple who paid off their $70,000 debt to travel full time and a woman who left her corporate job to work on a yacht.

Until Thursday, when federal agents escorted him off a 150-foot yacht moored in Long Island Sound, the word often used to describe Steve Bannon was “irrelevant.”

Instead the money allegedly was spent on luxury cars and a yacht club membership, among other things.

Loeb owns a $100 million penthouse on Central Park West and a $50 million yacht.

Solaire has set up charging capabilities at a project it built at a yacht club in Massachusetts, for example.

On my way back into town, I walked by the fortress of tents surrounding the harbor, readying for the yacht show.

Newly-minted Londoner, Lindsay Lohan, is currently chilling out on a yacht in Italy.

I heard her say to one of the servants once that my father had been lost on a yacht, and that he was oh, ever such a handsome man.

He owned a 54-ton yacht named the Opal, and attributed the wonderful health he enjoyed to his numerous sea voyages.

Another yacht had started from the old boathouse at about the time our friends and their new-fangled craft got under way.

Caermarthen ordered out his wonderful yacht, and hastened to complain to the King, who was then at Loo.

The yacht had long turned the head of the island and was beating down alongshore in the eastern bay.

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On this page you'll find 11 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to yacht, such as: racer, sailboat, sloop, cruiser, ketch, and yawl.

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Synonyms for yacht

An expensive vessel propelled by sail or power and used for cruising or racing.

• racing yacht

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Travel in a yacht.

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Synonyms for yacht yɒt yacht, this thesaurus page includes all potential synonyms, words with the same meaning and similar terms for the word yacht ., princeton's wordnet rate this synonym: 2.7 / 3 votes.

yacht, racing yacht verb

an expensive vessel propelled by sail or power and used for cruising or racing

Synonyms: racing yacht

travel in a yacht

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List of paraphrases for "yacht":

yate , sailboat , sailing , yachting , clipper , boat

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Zahi Moussa :

This yacht is like a precious jewel, like a rare masterpiece you keep at home, we feel sad that it looks like this.

Andreas Iseli :

A superyacht isn't a toy, but it's the ultimate place to go and be away from it all, we have clients who literally go two weeks a year on their yacht and switch off.

Elizabeth Warren :

I understand the power of the' 1 %,' you're seeing that right now literally with Michael Bloomberg, who has decided to use part of Michael Bloomberg 55 billion dollars not to buy a yacht, not to buy another home, not to buy a fancy car, but to buy the United States government.

Tom Lahren :

The rest of uslittle people should make sure that we're offsetting our car and making sure that we're canceling pipelines, making sure that we're riddingthis country of thousands of high paying jobs in the name of climate change, but people like him, that's the only option they have, to fly private or be on a yacht or any of these rich celebrities that do all the same things and then still worship at the altar of the almighty climate change yet again. Is this surprising to anyone? Because it certainly is not surprising to me.

Benjamin Barker :

Buying a yacht is a very personal and private investment, it’s an emotional decision and one of financial importance.

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• They spent their annual vacation on a chartered yacht in the Caribbean .
• He spent three days adrift on his yacht.
• His eyes were fixed on the distant yacht.
• If they can afford a yacht, they must be rolling in it.
• She sailed around the world single-handed in her yacht.
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Definition of yacht noun from the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary

• (intransitive) To sail, voyage, or race in a yacht.
• 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.
• Any vessel used for private, noncommercial purposes.
• 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 Any vessel used for private, noncommercial purposes.
• verb (intransitive) To sail, voyage, or race in a yacht.
• yacht (usually only used for a sailing boat with one mast)
• A slick and light ship for making pleasure trips or racing on water, having sails but often motor powered.
• slick and light ship
• any private noncommercial vessel
• noun an expensive vessel propelled by sail or power and used for cruising or racing
• verb travel in a yacht

Synonyms of "yacht" in English dictionary

boat, racing yacht, vessel are the top synonyms of "yacht" in English thesaurus.

• boat · racing yacht · vessel · watercraft

an expensive vessel propelled by sail or power and used for cruising or racing

Grammar and declension of yacht

• yacht ( plural   yachts )
• yacht ( third-person singular simple present yachts , present participle yachting , simple past and past participle yachted )
• lp   liczba pojedyncza yacht, lm   liczba mnoga yachts yacht, yachted, yachted, yachts, yachting
• yacht ( plural yachts )

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a vessel used for private cruising, racing, or other noncommercial purposes.

to sail, voyage, or race in a yacht.

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Origin of yacht

Other words from yacht.

• yachty, adjective
• su·per·yacht, noun

Words that may be confused with yacht

• barge , boat , canoe , cruise ship , sailboat , ship , yacht

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How to use yacht in a sentence

As City News explained it, the bribes were paid not only in cash but through rugs, antiques, furniture, yacht club fees, boat repairs and more.

In Ashburn, Snyder is always lurking in spirit, even if he is on his 305-foot yacht somewhere in the Aegean.

Driving across country in a gigantic land yacht —with its crushed-velour seats and faux wood siding—was more practical than a two-door hot rod.

Host Jason Moore chats with experts who share tips harvested from their real-life experiences, such as a couple who paid off their $70,000 debt to travel full time and a woman who left her corporate job to work on a yacht .

Until Thursday, when federal agents escorted him off a 150-foot yacht moored in Long Island Sound, the word often used to describe Steve Bannon was “irrelevant.”

Instead the money allegedly was spent on luxury cars and a yacht club membership, among other things.

Loeb owns a $100 million penthouse on Central Park West and a $50 million yacht .

Solaire has set up charging capabilities at a project it built at a yacht club in Massachusetts, for example.

On my way back into town, I walked by the fortress of tents surrounding the harbor, readying for the yacht show.

Newly-minted Londoner, Lindsay Lohan, is currently chilling out on a yacht in Italy.

I heard her say to one of the servants once that my father had been lost on a yacht , and that he was oh, ever such a handsome man.

He owned a 54-ton yacht named the Opal, and attributed the wonderful health he enjoyed to his numerous sea voyages.

Another yacht had started from the old boathouse at about the time our friends and their new-fangled craft got under way.

Caermarthen ordered out his wonderful yacht , and hastened to complain to the King, who was then at Loo.

The yacht had long turned the head of the island and was beating down alongshore in the eastern bay.

British Dictionary definitions for yacht

/ ( jɒt ) /

a vessel propelled by sail or power, used esp for pleasure cruising, racing, etc

short for sand yacht , ice yacht

(intr) to sail or cruise in a yacht

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Definition of yacht  (Entry 2 of 2)

intransitive verb

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Word History

obsolete Dutch jaght , from Middle Low German jacht , short for jachtschip , literally, hunting ship

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1836, in the meaning defined above

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from obsolete Dutch jaght (now jacht ), short for jachtschip, literally, "hunting ship"

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