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yacht
nom masculin
(anglais yacht, du néerlandais jacht )
- Bâtiment de plaisance (à voile, à moteur ou mixte [voile et moteur]), de compétition, de cérémonie ou d'apparat.
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PRONONCIATION
La première syllabe des dérivés yachtman et yachting se prononce de la même manière. remarque La prononciation [jak], comme yak , plus conforme à l'origine néerlandaise du mot, était naguère en concurrence avec la prononciation [jot]. Elle est aujourd'hui sortie de l'usage.
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- 7.1 Alternative forms
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English [ edit ]
Etymology [ edit ]
Circa 1557; variant of yaught , earlier yeaghe ( “ light, fast-sailing ship ” ) , from Dutch jacht ( “ yacht; hunt ” ) , in older spelling jaght(e) , short for jaghtschip ( “ light sailing vessel, fast pirate ship ” , literally “ pursuit ship ” ) , compound of jacht and schip ( “ ship ” ) .
In the 16th century the Dutch built light, fast ships to chase the ships of pirates and smugglers from the coast. The ship was introduced to England in 1660 when the Dutch East India Company presented one to King Charles II, who used it as a pleasure boat, after which it was copied by British shipbuilders as a pleasure craft for wealthy gentlemen.
Pronunciation [ edit ]
- ( UK ) enPR : yŏt , IPA ( key ) : /jɒt/
- ( US ) enPR : yät , IPA ( key ) : /jɑːt/ , /jɑt/
- Rhymes: -ɒt
Noun [ edit ]
yacht ( plural yachts )
- 1897 December (indicated as 1898 ), Winston Churchill , chapter X, in The Celebrity: An Episode , New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company ; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd. , →OCLC : The skipper Mr. Cooke had hired at Far Harbor was a God-fearing man with a luke warm interest in his new billet and employer, and had only been prevailed upon to take charge of the yacht after the offer of an emolument equal to half a year's sea pay of an ensign in the navy.
- 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers , chapter VI, in The Younger Set , New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company , →OCLC : “I don’t mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera, [ … ] , the chlorotic squatters on huge yachts , [ … ] , the neurotic victims of mental cirrhosis, the jewelled animals whose moral code is the code of the barnyard—!"
Derived terms [ edit ]
- motor yacht , motoryacht , MY
- sailing yacht , steam yacht , SY
- yacht person
Translations [ edit ]
Verb [ edit ].
yacht ( third-person singular simple present yachts , present participle yachting , simple past and past participle yachted )
- ( intransitive ) To sail , voyage , or race in a yacht .
Anagrams [ edit ]
- Cathy , tachy , tachy- , yatch
French [ edit ]
Borrowed from English yacht , from Dutch jacht .
- IPA ( key ) : /jɔt/ , /jot/ , ( Canada ) /jat/
yacht m ( plural yachts )
Further reading [ edit ]
- “ yacht ”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [ Digitized Treasury of the French Language ] , 2012.
Italian [ edit ]
Unadapted borrowing from English yacht .
- IPA ( key ) : /ˈjɔt/ [1]
- Rhymes: -ɔt
yacht m ( invariable )
- the letter Y in the Italian spelling alphabet
References [ edit ]
- ^ yacht in Luciano Canepari , Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
- yacht in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line , Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Norman [ edit ]
Borrowed from English yacht .
yacht ? ( plural yachts )
- ( Jersey ) yacht
Norwegian Bokmål [ edit ]
From Dutch jacht , via English yacht .
yacht m ( definite singular yachten , indefinite plural yachter , definite plural yachtene )
- “yacht” in The Bokmål Dictionary .
Norwegian Nynorsk [ edit ]
yacht m ( definite singular yachten , indefinite plural yachtar , definite plural yachtane )
- “yacht” in The Nynorsk Dictionary .
Swedish [ edit ]
Alternative forms [ edit ].
yacht c
Declension [ edit ]
- yacht in Svenska Akademiens ordlista ( SAOL )
- yacht in Svensk ordbok ( SO )
- yacht in Svenska Akademiens ordbok ( SAOB )
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intransitive verb
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obsolete Dutch jaght , from Middle Low German jacht , short for jachtschip , literally, hunting ship
1557, in the meaning defined above
1836, in the meaning defined above
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from obsolete Dutch jaght (now jacht ), short for jachtschip, literally, "hunting ship"
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Définition "yacht"
- Grand navire de plaisance.
- Petit navire habitable, luxueux, souvent à voiles.
Synonyme "yacht"
bateau , bateau de plaisance , embarcation de plaisance , voilier , yacht de plaisance
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a vessel used for private cruising, racing, or other noncommercial purposes.
to sail, voyage, or race in a yacht.
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- yachty, adjective
- su·per·yacht, noun
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How to use yacht in a sentence
As City News explained it, the bribes were paid not only in cash but through rugs, antiques, furniture, yacht club fees, boat repairs and more.
In Ashburn, Snyder is always lurking in spirit, even if he is on his 305-foot yacht somewhere in the Aegean.
Driving across country in a gigantic land yacht —with its crushed-velour seats and faux wood siding—was more practical than a two-door hot rod.
Host Jason Moore chats with experts who share tips harvested from their real-life experiences, such as a couple who paid off their $70,000 debt to travel full time and a woman who left her corporate job to work on a yacht .
Until Thursday, when federal agents escorted him off a 150-foot yacht moored in Long Island Sound, the word often used to describe Steve Bannon was “irrelevant.”
Instead the money allegedly was spent on luxury cars and a yacht club membership, among other things.
Loeb owns a $100 million penthouse on Central Park West and a $50 million yacht .
Solaire has set up charging capabilities at a project it built at a yacht club in Massachusetts, for example.
On my way back into town, I walked by the fortress of tents surrounding the harbor, readying for the yacht show.
Newly-minted Londoner, Lindsay Lohan, is currently chilling out on a yacht in Italy.
I heard her say to one of the servants once that my father had been lost on a yacht , and that he was oh, ever such a handsome man.
He owned a 54-ton yacht named the Opal, and attributed the wonderful health he enjoyed to his numerous sea voyages.
Another yacht had started from the old boathouse at about the time our friends and their new-fangled craft got under way.
Caermarthen ordered out his wonderful yacht , and hastened to complain to the King, who was then at Loo.
The yacht had long turned the head of the island and was beating down alongshore in the eastern bay.
British Dictionary definitions for yacht
/ ( jɒt ) /
a vessel propelled by sail or power, used esp for pleasure cruising, racing, etc
short for sand yacht , ice yacht
(intr) to sail or cruise in a yacht
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+ yacht nom masculin (anglais yacht, du néerlandais jacht) Bâtiment de plaisance (à voile, à moteur ou mixte [voile et moteur]), de compétition, de cérémonie ou d'apparat. VOUS CHERCHEZ PEUT-ÊTRE yacht n.m. Bâtiment de plaisance (à voile, à moteur ou mixte [voile et moteur]), de compétition, de cérémonie ou... yacht-club n.m.
Bateau de plaisance ponté à voiles ou à moteur. J'attends non pas de ces bateaux transatlantiques qui portent des hommes à destins médiocres (...), mais les deux esquifs qui ont le plus de différence et qui portent les êtres les plus lointains, une pirogue d'abord, ou au contraire un yacht ( Giraudoux, Suzanne, 1921, p. 183).
A yacht Etymology [edit]. Circa 1557; variant of yaught, earlier yeaghe (" light, fast-sailing ship "), from Dutch jacht (" yacht; hunt "), in older spelling jaght(e), short for jaghtschip (" light sailing vessel, fast pirate ship ", literally " pursuit ship "), compound of jacht and schip (" ship ").. In the 16th century the Dutch built light, fast ships to chase the ships ...
: any of various recreational watercraft: such as a : a sailboat used for racing b : a large usually motor-driven craft used for pleasure cruising yacht 2 of 2 verb yachted; yachting; yachts intransitive verb : to race or cruise in a yacht Examples of yacht in a Sentence Recent Examples on the Web Noun
A yacht ( / jɒt /) is a sailing or power vessel used for pleasure, cruising, or racing. [2] [3] [4] There is no standard definition, though the term generally applies to vessels with a cabin intended for overnight use.
Définition "yacht" n.m. Grand navire de plaisance. Petit navire habitable, luxueux, souvent à voiles. Synonyme "yacht" n.m. bateau, bateau de plaisance, embarcation de plaisance, voilier, yacht de plaisance Noms communs Noms propres a b c f d e g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w
Quick Definitions. Commercial Yacht - Any yacht of at least 12 meters overall length legally registered and able to be engaged in lawful trade, commerce, or chartered for commercial use in sport or pleasure, but carrying no more than 12 passengers. Jaght - Dutch. hunt, hunting.
Français : yacht - char à glace - char à voile - club nautique - course à la voile - course nautique - racer - yacht-club. Dans les listes : Types of personal water vehicles, Vehicles, Suite... Synonymes : pleasure boat, sloop, auxiliary racer, class boat, racing boat, Suite... Collocations : yacht [maintenance, repairs, mooring fees], a ...
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noun /jɒt/ /jɑːt/ ( North American English also sailboat) a sailing boat, often also with an engine and a place to sleep on board, used for pleasure trips and racing a 12-metre racing yacht a yacht club/race compare dinghy Topics Transport by water b2, Sports: water sports b2 Oxford Collocations Dictionary Join us
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a large and usually expensive boat, used for racing or for traveling around for pleasure: Now he's had to sell his yacht, his place in the Bahamas, his wife's diamonds. (Definition of yacht from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Examples of yacht yacht
a large and usually expensive boat, used for racing or for traveling around for pleasure: Now he's had to sell his yacht, his place in the Bahamas, his wife's diamonds. (Definition of yacht from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Examples of yacht yacht To the northeast, they saw the derelict yacht yet again.
yacht, a sail- or power-driven vessel, usually light and comparatively small, used for racing or for recreation. In recreation, the term applies to very large craft, originally powered by sail and later by steam or internal-combustion engines. It is in this sense that the generality of nonyachting (nonsailing) people usually think of the term ...
yacht translations: yacht, yacht. Learn more in the Cambridge French-English Dictionary.
noun /yɑt/ enlarge image enlarge image a large sailing boat, often also with an engine and a place to sleep on board, used for pleasure trips and racing a yacht club/race a motor yacht a luxury yacht compare dinghy, sailboat Take your English to the next level The Oxford Learner's Thesaurus explains the difference between groups of similar words.
The yacht and the technical team are still in Gosport. Le bateau et l'équipe technique sont toujours à Gosport. Vagabond is a yacht specifically designed to sail in icy waters. Vagabond est un voilier spécialement conçu pour naviguer dans les glaces. A magnificent yacht sneaks through the ferries while leaving the marina.
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yacht: 1 n an expensive vessel propelled by sail or power and used for cruising or racing Synonyms: racing yacht Type of: vessel , watercraft a craft designed for water transportation v travel in a yacht Type of: boat ride in a boat on water
The word for yacht in French is yacht. Hear the pronunciation, see example sentences and French meanings for the other related words: . Learn more. French. Beginner. Word Sets. 0% ... The plural of yacht is yachts. French Definition. yacht 1. n. Yacht. Translations for yacht and their definitions. yacht 1. n-m. yacht ...
3 meanings: 1. a vessel propelled by sail or power, used esp for pleasure cruising, racing, etc 2. → short for sand yacht, ice.... Click for more definitions.
a large boat with sails used for pleasure or in races: a luxury yacht (Definition of yacht from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Translations of yacht in Chinese (Traditional) 帆船, 快艇, 遊艇… See more in Chinese (Simplified) 帆船, 快艇, 游艇… See more in Spanish yate, yate [masculine, singular]… See more in Portuguese
From the definition of a yacht to the spelling of various sailing-related terms, this article sets out to demystify the language of the seas, offering insight into the origins and meanings of these captivating words. Decoding the yacht: Definition and origin. A yacht is more than a vessel; it's a symbol of luxury and sophistication.