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STEAMBOAT

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Dictionary entry overview: What does steamboat mean?

• STEAMBOAT (noun)
The noun STEAMBOAT has 1 sense:

1. a boat propelled by a steam engine

Familiarity information: STEAMBOAT used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• STEAMBOAT (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

A boat propelled by a steam engine

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("steamboat" is a kind of...):

boat (a small vessel for travel on water)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "steamboat"):

showboat (a river steamboat on which theatrical performances could be given (especially on the Mississippi River))

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