seaplane

English

A de Havilland Otter floatplane

A Grumman G-111 Albatross amphibious flying boat landing

Etymology

From sea +‎ plane. Supposedly coined by Winston Churchill.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsiˌpleɪn/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

seaplane (plural seaplanes)

1. (aircraft, nautical) Any aircraft capable of taking off from, and alighting on the surface of water.

   Synonym: hydroplane

Hyponyms

• floatplane, float plane
• flying boat

Derived terms

• seaplane carrier
• seaplane tender

Translations

an aircraft

• Afrikaans: vliegboot
• Basque: ur-hegazkin
• Bulgarian: хидроплан (bg) m (hidroplan)
• Catalan: hidroavió m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 水上飛機 / 水上飞机 (zh) (shuǐshàng fēijī)

• Czech: hydroplán (cs) m
• Danish: vandfly n
• Dutch: watervliegtuig (nl) n
• Esperanto: hidroplano
• Estonian: vesilennuk
• Faroese: sjóflogfar n
• Finnish: vesitaso (fi), vesilentokone
• French: hydravion (fr) m
• Galician: hidroavión (gl) m
• Georgian: ჰიდროთვითმფრინავი (hidrotvitmprinavi), ჰიდროპლანი (hidroṗlani)
• German: Wasserflugzeug (de) n
• Greek: υδροπλάνο (el) n (ydropláno)
• Hungarian: hidroplán (hu)
• Icelandic: sjóflugvél f
• Italian: idrovolante (it) m
• Japanese: 水上機 (ja) (すいじょうき, suijōki)
• Macedonian: хидроавио́н m (hidroavión)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sjøfly n

  Nynorsk: sjøfly n

• Polish: wodnosamolot (pl) m, hydroplan (pl) m
• Portuguese: hidroavião (pt) m
• Romanian: hidroavion (ro) n
• Russian: гидросамолёт (ru) m (gidrosamoljót), гидропла́н (ru) m (gidroplán)
• Slovene: hidroplan m
• Spanish: hidroavión (es) m, hidroplano (es) m
• Swedish: sjöflygplan (sv) n
• Vietnamese: thủy phi cơ (vi)

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