longboat

1. 1.

   the largest boat carried by a merchant sailing vessel

   Broaderboat

Other forms of longboat

plural

longboats·

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 longboat

What does longboat mean?

longboat means "the largest boat carried by a merchant sailing vessel".

How many syllables are in longboat?

longboat has 3 syllables and divides as long-bo-at under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.