yacht

[ yot ]

/ yɒt /

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noun

a vessel used for private cruising, racing, or other noncommercial purposes.

verb (used without object)

to sail, voyage, or race in a yacht.

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Origin of yacht

1550–60; <early Dutch jaght, short for jaghtschip hunting ship, equivalent to Dutch jacht hunt (derivative of jagen to hunt) + schipship¹

OTHER WORDS FROM yacht

yachty, adjectivesu·per·yacht, noun

WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH yacht

barge, boat, canoe, cruise ship, sailboat, ship, yacht

Words nearby yacht

yabber, yabby, Yablonovy Mountains, Yablonovyy Range, yacca, yacht, yacht chair, yacht club, yachtie, yachting, yachtsman

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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.
Morning Report: County Gives COVID Patients’ Addresses to Police|Voice of San Diego|January 21, 2021|Voice of San Diego
In Ashburn, Snyder is always lurking in spirit, even if he is on his 305-foot yacht somewhere in the Aegean.
Don’t make what’s interesting important, Ron Rivera says. Easier said than done for Washington.|Thomas M. Boswell|December 27, 2020|Washington Post
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.
Fun haulers|Joe Phillips|December 19, 2020|Washington Blade
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.
With travel podcasts, explore the world through your ear buds|Andrea Sachs|December 11, 2020|Washington Post

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.”
We All Should Have Listened to Steve Bannon|Daniel Malloy|August 22, 2020|Ozy
Instead the money allegedly was spent on luxury cars and a yacht club membership, among other things.
Obama’s Golf Buddy May Be a ‘Hostile Witness’ in Chicago Corruption Case|Ben Jacobs|December 3, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Loeb owns a $100 million penthouse on Central Park West and a $50 million yacht.
Hunger Games Comes to New York State’s Public Schools|Zephyr Teachout|November 26, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Solaire has set up charging capabilities at a project it built at a yacht club in Massachusetts, for example.
Paved Paradise|The Daily Beast|September 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST
On my way back into town, I walked by the fortress of tents surrounding the harbor, readying for the yacht show.
No Movie Stars, No Red Carpet, But Off-Season Cannes Is Still Magic|Liza Foreman|September 15, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Newly-minted Londoner, Lindsay Lohan, is currently chilling out on a yacht in Italy.
Lindsay Lohan Parties in Europe And Posts Revealing Instagram From Yacht|Tom Sykes|July 18, 2014|DAILY BEAST
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.
Rosemary in Search of a Father|C. N. Williamson
He owned a 54-ton yacht named the Opal, and attributed the wonderful health he enjoyed to his numerous sea voyages.
The Recent Revolution in Organ Building|George Laing Miller
Another yacht had started from the old boathouse at about the time our friends and their new-fangled craft got under way.
The Girls of Central High on the Stage|Gertrude W. Morrison
Caermarthen ordered out his wonderful yacht, and hastened to complain to the King, who was then at Loo.
The History of England from the Accession of James II.|Thomas Babington Macaulay
The yacht had long turned the head of the island and was beating down alongshore in the eastern bay.
The Rival Campers|Ruel Perley Smith

British Dictionary definitions for yacht

yacht

/ (jɒt) /

noun

a vessel propelled by sail or power, used esp for pleasure cruising, racing, etc

short for sand yacht, ice yacht

verb

(intr) to sail or cruise in a yacht

Word Origin for yacht

C16: from obsolete Dutch jaghte, short for jahtschip, from jagen to chase + schip ship

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