Yacht

Quick meaning: Yacht is a noun meaning Any vessel used for private, noncommercial purposes.

Meaning

Any vessel used for private, noncommercial purposes.

More Meanings

1. (intransitive) To sail, voyage, or race in a yacht.
2. (nautical) 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.

Example Sentences

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?

The skipper Mr. Cooke had hired at Far Harbor was a God-fearing man with a luke warm interest in his new billet and employer, and had only been prevailed upon to take charge of the yacht after the offer of an emolument equal to half a year's sea pay of an ensign in the navy.

“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 code is the code of the barnyard—!"

Word Forms

• yachts
• yachting
• yachted

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include boat, sailboat, vessel, boating, ship, sailing.

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