steamboat

English

Robert Fulton's Clermont

Noun

steamboat (plural steamboats)

1. A boat or vessel propelled by steam power.

   1870 By and by the steamboat intruded. Then for fifteen or twenty years, these men continued to run their keelboats down-stream, and the steamers did all of the upstream business, the keelboatmen selling their boats in New Orleans, and returning home as deck passengers in the steamers. — Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi, Chapter 3.

Synonyms

• steamer, steamship

Translations

vessel powered by steam

• Albanian: vapor (sq)
• Arabic: باخرة (ar) (baakhira) f, سفينة بخارية (ar) (safiina bukhaaríyya) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 汽船 (cmn) (qìchuán), 輪船 (cmn), 轮船 (cmn) (lúnchuán)

• Czech: parník (cs) m
• Danish: dampskib (da) n, damper (da) c
• Dutch: stoomboot (nl) f and m
• Finnish: höyryalus (fi)
• French: bateau à vapeur (fr) m
• German: Dampfschiff (de) n, Dampfer (de) m
• Greek: ατμόπλοιο (el) (atmóploio) n
• Hungarian: gőzhajó (hu), gőzös (hu)
• Indonesian: kapal uap (id)
• Italian: nave a vapore (it) f
• Japanese: 蒸気船 (ja) (じょうきせん, jōkisen)

• Lithuanian: garlaivis (lt) m
• Low German: Damper (nds)
• Macedonian: параброд (mk) (párabrod) m
• Norwegian: dampskip (no) n
• Polish: parowiec (pl) m, parostatek (pl) m
• Portuguese: barco a vapor (pt) m
• Russian: пароход (ru) (paroxod)
• Scottish Gaelic: bàta-smùide (gd) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пароброд (sh) m

  Roman: pȁrobrōd (sh) m

• Spanish: barco de vapor (es) m
• Swedish: ångfartyg (sv) n
• Ukrainian: пароплав (uk) (paropláv) m

External links

• Steamboat on Wikipedia.Wikipedia