yacht

[ yot ]

noun

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

verb (used without object)

1. to sail, voyage, or race in a yacht.

yacht

/ jɒt /

noun

1. a vessel propelled by sail or power, used esp for pleasure cruising, racing, etc
2. See ice yacht, sand yacht
   short for sand yacht ice yacht

verb

1. intr to sail or cruise in a yacht

Other Words From

• yachty adjective
• super·yacht noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of yacht¹

1550–60; < early Dutch jaght, short for jaghtschip hunting ship, equivalent to Dutch jacht hunt (derivative of jagen to hunt) + schip ship ¹

Word History and Origins

Origin of yacht¹

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

Example Sentences

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.

From 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.

From 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.

From 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.

From 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.”

From Ozy

Instead the money allegedly was spent on luxury cars and a yacht club membership, among other things.

From The Daily Beast

Loeb owns a $100 million penthouse on Central Park West and a $50 million yacht.

From The Daily Beast

Solaire has set up charging capabilities at a project it built at a yacht club in Massachusetts, for example.

From The Daily Beast

On my way back into town, I walked by the fortress of tents surrounding the harbor, readying for the yacht show.

From The Daily Beast

Newly-minted Londoner, Lindsay Lohan, is currently chilling out on a yacht in Italy.

From The 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.

From Project Gutenberg

He owned a 54-ton yacht named the Opal, and attributed the wonderful health he enjoyed to his numerous sea voyages.

From Project Gutenberg

Another yacht had started from the old boathouse at about the time our friends and their new-fangled craft got under way.

From Project Gutenberg

Caermarthen ordered out his wonderful yacht, and hastened to complain to the King, who was then at Loo.

From Project Gutenberg

The yacht had long turned the head of the island and was beating down alongshore in the eastern bay.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• racer
• sailboat
• sloop