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View synonyms for steamboat

steamboat

[ steem-boht ]

noun

  1. a steam-driven vessel, especially a small one or one used on inland waters.


steamboat

/ ˈstiːmˌbəʊt /

noun

  1. a boat powered by a steam engine


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Word History and Origins

Origin of steamboat1

An Americanism dating back to 1775–85; steam + boat

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Example Sentences

Many communities like Steamboat are reaching a breaking point.

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Yet Steamboat Springs stands out because it feels like a place where normal people can live.

Great restaurants, bars and a few breweries make Steamboat a great destination.

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Meanwhile, almost exactly 30 years after the trial, the judge left his home to board a steamboat and was never heard from again.

It is the omphalos, this city that straddles two steamboat rivers at the continental crossroads.

Then bed down in the seaside town of Mystic, Connecticut, with views of the wharf from your private room at the Steamboat Inn.

Later, scores of black men roll giant bushels of cotton onto a steamboat.

The ski club—and Howelsen Hill—are the reasons Steamboat has produced so many great athletes.

The steamboat of 1809 and the steam locomotive of 1830 were the direct result of what had gone before.

I would not just then have traded off that steamboat for several square miles of snow-capped sublimity.

Here the “c” is hard and represents 7, and as the steamboat could easily outrun the “scow,” the phrase is easily remembered.

If you are obliged to pass the night upon a steamboat secure, if possible, a stateroom.

It finally plunged sharply down to a steamboat ferry, over which we crossed the Dart and landed directly in the town.

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