boat

1. 1.

   ride in a boat on water

   Broaderride

   Narrowermotorboatyachtsailrowcanoekayakpaddle

   navigation

Other forms of boat

plural

boats·

past tense

boated·

present participle

boating·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about boat

What does boat mean?

boat means "a small vessel for travel on water". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in boat?

boat has 1 syllable: boat. In IPA it is /ˈboʊt/.

What is another word for boat?

Close synonyms include gravy boat, gravy holder, sauceboat. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is boat a common word?

boat is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with boat?

14 words rhyme with boat. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.