steamboat

See also: Steamboat, steam-boat, and steam boat

English

Robert Fulton's Clermont

Alternative forms

• steam-boat, steam boat

Etymology

Compound of steam +‎ boat.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈstimˌboʊt/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈstiːmˌbəʊt/
• Hyphenation: steam‧boat

Noun

steamboat (countable and uncountable, plural steamboats)

1. A boat or vessel propelled by steam power.

   Synonyms: steamer, steamship

   • 1870, Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi, Chapter 3.

     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.

2. (uncountable, Singapore, Malaysia) Hot pot (Chinese dish).

Derived terms

• steamboats
• Steamboat Springs

Descendants

• → Dutch: stoomboot (calque)
• → Ottoman Turkish: استمبوط‎ (istimbot)

Translations

vessel powered by steam

• Albanian: vapor (sq)
• Arabic: بَاخِرَة‎ f (bāḵira), سَفِينَة بُخَارِيَّة‎ f (safīna buḵāriyya)
• Armenian: շոգենավ (hy) (šogenav)
• Azerbaijani: buxar gəmisi, paroxod
• Basque: lurrunontzi
• Belarusian: парахо́д m (paraxód)
• Bulgarian: парахо́д (bg) m (parahód)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 汽船 (zh) (qìchuán), 輪船／轮船 (zh) (lúnchuán)

• Chuvash: пӑрахут (părah̬ut)
• Czech: parník (cs) m
• Danish: dampskib (da) n, damper c
• Dutch: stoomboot (nl) f or m
• Esperanto: vaporŝipo
• Estonian: aurik
• Finnish: höyryalus (fi)
• French: bateau à vapeur (fr) m
• German: Dampfschiff (de) n, Dampfer (de) m
• Greek: ατμόπλοιο (el) n (atmóploio)
• Hindi: स्टीमर (hi) m (sṭīmar)
• Hungarian: gőzhajó (hu), gőzös (hu)
• Icelandic: gufuskip n
• Ido: vapornavo (io)
• Indonesian: kapal uap
• Irish: stíméar m, stíomar m
• Italian: nave a vapore f
• Japanese: 蒸気船 (ja) (じょうきせん, jōkisen)
• Korean: 기선 (ko) (giseon), 증기선 (ko) (jeunggiseon)
• Lithuanian: garlaivis m
• Low German: Damper
• Macedonian: параброд m (parabrod)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: dampbåt m, dampskip n

  Nynorsk: dampbåt m, dampskip n

• Polish: parowiec (pl) m, parostatek (pl) m
• Portuguese: barco a vapor m
• Russian: парохо́д (ru) (paroxód)
• Scottish Gaelic: bàta-smùide m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пароброд m

  Roman: pȁrobrōd (sh) m

• Slovak: parník m
• Slovene: parnik (sl) m
• Spanish: barco de vapor m
• Swedish: ångfartyg (sv) n, ångbåt (sv) c
• Thai: เรือไฟ (rʉʉa-fai)
• Turkish: vapur (tr)
• Ukrainian: паропла́в m (paropláv)

Verb

steamboat (third-person singular simple present steamboats, present participle steamboating, simple past and past participle steamboated)

1. To travel by steamboat.

See also

• steamship
• steamer

Anagrams

• boat mates, boatmates