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/
• Rhymes: -iːmbəʊt
• 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, chapter 3, in Life on the Mississippi‎^[1]:

     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) m
• Arabic: بَاخِرَة f (bāḵira), سَفِينَة بُخَارِيَّة f (safīna buḵāriyya)
• Armenian: շոգենավ (hy) (šogenav)
• Azerbaijani: buxar gəmisi, paroxod
• Basque: lurrunontzi
• Belarusian: парахо́д m (paraxód)
• Bengali: স্টিমার (bn) (sṭimar)
• 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
• Georgian: პარახოდი (ṗaraxodi)
• 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
• Ingrian: parahoda
• Irish: stíméar m, stíomar m
• Italian: nave a vapore f, piroscafo (it) m
• Japanese: 蒸気船 (ja) (じょうきせん, jōkisen), 汽船 (ja) (きせん, kisen)
• Kazakh: пароход (paroxod)
• Korean: 기선(汽船) (ko) (giseon), 증기선(蒸氣船) (ko) (jeunggiseon)
• Kyrgyz: пароход (parohod)
• Latvian: tvaikonis m
• Lithuanian: garlaivis m
• Low German: Damper
• Macedonian: параброд m (parabrod), параход m (parahod)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: dampbåt m, dampskip n

  Nynorsk: dampbåt m, dampskip n

• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: کَشْتیِ بُخار (kašti-ye boxâr), واپور (vâpor)

• Polish: parowiec (pl) m, parostatek (pl) m
• Portuguese: barco a vapor m
• Romanian: vapor (ro) n, navă cu aburi f
• Russian: парохо́д (ru) (paroxód)
• Scottish Gaelic: bàta-smùide m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: па̏робро̄д m

  Roman: pȁrobrōd (sh) m

• Slovak: parník m
• Slovene: parnik (sl) m
• Spanish: barco de vapor m
• Swedish: ångfartyg (sv) n, ångbåt (sv) c
• Tagalog: bapor
• Thai: เรือไฟ (rʉʉa-fai), เรือจักรไอน้ำ
• Turkish: vapur (tr), buharlı gemi (tr)
• Turkmen: parohod
• Ukrainian: паропла́в m (paropláv)
• Uyghur: پاراخوت (paraxot)
• Uzbek: paroxod (uz)
• Vietnamese: thuyền hơi nước

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