scooter

1. 1.

   a motorboat resembling a motor scooter

   Synonymswater scootersea scooter

   Broadermotorboat
2. 2.

   child's two-wheeled vehicle operated by foot

   Broaderwheeled vehicle
3. 3.

   a wheeled vehicle with small wheels and a low-powered gasoline engine geared to the rear wheel

   Synonymsmotor scooter

   Broaderwheeled vehicle
4. 4.

   a sailing vessel with runners and a cross-shaped frame; suitable for traveling over ice

   Synonymsiceboatice yacht

   Broadervessel
5. 5.

   large black diving duck of northern parts of the northern hemisphere

   Synonymsscoter

   Broadersea duck

   Narrowercommon scoter

   Part ofMelanitta

Other forms of scooter

plural

scooters·

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 scooter

What does scooter mean?

scooter means "a motorboat resembling a motor scooter". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in scooter?

scooter has 2 syllables: scoo-ter. The stress falls on "scoo". In IPA it is /ˈskutɚ/.

What is another word for scooter?

Close synonyms include water scooter, sea scooter, motor scooter, iceboat, ice yacht. 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 scooter a common word?

scooter is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.