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yacht
[ yot ]
noun
- a vessel used for private cruising, racing, or other noncommercial purposes.
verb (used without object)
- to sail, voyage, or race in a yacht.
yacht
/ jɒt /
noun
- a vessel propelled by sail or power, used esp for pleasure cruising, racing, etc
- See ice yacht, sand yachtshort for sand yacht ice yacht
verb
- intr to sail or cruise in a yacht
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Other Words From
- yachty adjective
- super·yacht noun
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of yacht1
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Example Sentences
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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