houseboat
noun
a flat-bottomed, bargelike boat fitted for use as a floating dwelling but not for rough water.
houseboats
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pluralof houseboat.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Our solution was to use one of the Kariba houseboats as a mobile hotel and laboratory, so that we could prospect the shoreline.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026
Wreckage from the 1906 earthquake was used to build the first “arks,” houseboats in Sausalito, providing a quirky infrastructure.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
After declining in use, "a restoration movement came about in the '60s" and people began to live on canal houseboats, Clarke said.
From Barron's ● Feb. 11, 2026
But these are typically clusters of houseboats moored close to one another.
From New York Times ● May 10, 2024
Our two houseboats are twenty feet long and ten feet wide and are docked side by side.
From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung
