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Definition: Ferryboat |
FerryboatNoun1. A boat that transports people or vehicles across a body of water and operates on a regular schedule. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "ferryboat" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1812. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Transportation | A boat used to pass vehicles over water. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonym: FerryboatSynonym: ferry (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Ferryboat |
| English words defined with "ferryboat": Bac ♦ Ferry bridge, floating bridge. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "ferryboat": ferry operator, FERRYBOAT CAPTAIN, ferryboat helper, FERRYBOAT OPERATOR, FERRYBOAT OPERATOR, CABLE, FERRYBOAT-OPERATOR HELPER ♦ PURCHASING-AND-CLAIMS SUPERVISOR ♦ TICKET TAKER, FERRYBOAT. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Ferryboat" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. French (ferryboat). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Most of the big shore places were closed now. And there were hardly any lights except the shadowy, moving glow of the ferryboat across the sound (New York: A Documentary Film; writing credit: Ric Burns; James Sanders) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Ferryboat Entering Slip (1902) View of Brooklyn Bridge from a Ferryboat (1899) Ferryboat 'St. Louis' (1899) New York Harbor Ferryboat and Tug Passing Governors Island (1897) Ferryboat 'Winthrop' (1897) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | A ferryboat plying Puget Sound in the late afternoon. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | Watercolor by Erik Heyl, 1962, painted for use in his book "Early American Steamers", Volume IV. Originally the civilian ferryboat Nuestra Señora del Regla, built in 1861. She returned to civilian employment after the Civil War, under the name Waccamaw. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Photographed circa 1917-18, with Maine Central Rail Road markings on her bow. This ship was acquired by the Navy on 28 March 1918 as USS Moosehead (ID # 2047). On 11 August 1920, she was renamed Porpoise and reclassified as a ferryboat with hull number YFB-2047. Stricken on 30 December 1930, she was sold on 24 February 1931. Credit: NAVY. |  | Ferryboat, Detroit. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Ferryboat Britannia. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Olso, Norway. Stern deck of a small ferryboat in the harbor. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Mosque at Sunset 1" by William J. Ray Commentary: "Taken from a ferryboat in the middle of the Bosphorus... December/January are definately the best months for catching sunsets in Istanbul. ." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| "Ferryboat" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Ferryboat" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 4 | 175,879 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
ferryboat | 15 |
binghamton ferryboat | 3 |
campground ferryboat | 2 |
denmark ferryboat | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "ferryboat"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | ferribot (ferry, train ferry), anije-trap (ferry). (various references) | |
Arabic | معدية, المعدية. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | ферибот (ferry). (various references) | |
Chinese | 渡轮. (various references) | |
Czech | převozní èlun. (various references) | |
Danish | flodfaerge (ferry, river-ferry), faerge (ferry, ferry boat, river-ferry). (various references) | |
Dutch | veerpont (ferry), veerboot (ferry), overzetboot (ferry). (various references) | |
French | ferryboat (ferry). (various references) | |
German | Flussfaehre (ferry, river-ferry), Faehrschiff (ferry, river-ferry), Faehre (ferry, river-ferry). (various references) | |
Greek | πορθμείο (ferry). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מעבורת (ferry). (various references) | |
Hungarian | komphajó, komp (ferry, ferry bridge, raft). (various references) | |
Italian | nave traghetto (car-ferry, ferry, ferry boat, river-ferry, vessel of ferry type). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | フェライト磁石 (fellatio, ferrite magnet, ferry), 渡し舟 , 渡し船 (ferry), 乗り合い船 , 乗合船 (passenger boat). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | フェリーボート , のりあいぶね (passenger boat), のりあいせん (passenger boat), わたしぶね (ferry). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | erryboatfay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | barco de travessia, barco de passagem, barca de passagem (ferry, river-ferry), "ferry-boat" (ferry, river-ferry). (various references) | |
Russian | паром (ferry, ferry boat, ferry-boat, passage boat, raft). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | trajekt (ferry), skela (ferry, pram). (various references) | |
Spanish | transbordador (ferry). (various references) | |
Swedish | färja (ferry), sjöbuss (jack tar, sea dog). (various references) | |
Thai | เรือข้ามฟาก (ferry). (various references) | |
Turkish | feribot (ferry, passage boat), araba vapuru (car ferry, ferry, passage boat). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | пором (ferry, floater, raft). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "ferryboat": ferryboats. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "ferryboat" (pronounced fe"rēbō't) |
| 3 | -b ō' t | flatboat, gunboat, houseboat, lifeboat, motorboat, powerboat, riverboat, rowboat, sailboat, Showboat, speedboat, steamboat, towboat, tugboat. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-e-f-o-r-r-t-y" | |
-2 letters: aborter, forayer, forbear, forebay, taborer, torrefy. | |
-3 letters: artery, barret, barter, baryte, betray, boater, borate, brayer, forbye, foreby, frater, orfray, rafter, rarefy, rebato, rotary. | |
-4 letters: abort, afore, after, arbor, barer, barre, barye, berry, boart, borer, borty, boyar, faery, farer, ferry, fetor, foray, forby, forte, forty, foyer, frore, fryer, oater, ofter, orate, rater, rebar, refry. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-e-f-o-r-r-t-y" | |
+1 letter: ferryboats. | |
+4 letters: reformability. | |
+5 letters: performability. | |
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