"flyboat" meaning in All languages combined

See flyboat on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: flyboats [plural]
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch vlieboot, but re-analysed as fly + boat. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|nl|vlieboot}} Dutch vlieboot, {{compound|en|fly|boat}} fly + boat Head templates: {{en-noun}} flyboat (plural flyboats)
  1. A large flat-bottomed Dutch coasting vessel. Categories (topical): Watercraft
    Sense id: en-flyboat-en-noun-UqTRQIra Disambiguation of Watercraft: 79 21 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 84 16
  2. A kind of passenger boat formerly used on canals.
    Sense id: en-flyboat-en-noun-WhCEvtyc
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: fly-boat

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

Download JSON data for flyboat meaning in All languages combined (1.6kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "nl",
        "3": "vlieboot"
      },
      "expansion": "Dutch vlieboot",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fly",
        "3": "boat"
      },
      "expansion": "fly + boat",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Dutch vlieboot, but re-analysed as fly + boat.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "flyboats",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "flyboat (plural flyboats)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "84 16",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "79 21",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Watercraft",
          "orig": "en:Watercraft",
          "parents": [
            "Nautical",
            "Vehicles",
            "Transport",
            "Machines",
            "All topics",
            "Technology",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "August 14, 1595, Thomas Treffry, letter to Sir Robert Cecil\na ship of Bristol was chased into this harbour by two Spanish fly-boats, and they report […] that there are five men of war, Spanish, in the road of Conquet"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A large flat-bottomed Dutch coasting vessel."
      ],
      "id": "en-flyboat-en-noun-UqTRQIra",
      "links": [
        [
          "Dutch",
          "Dutch"
        ],
        [
          "coast",
          "coast"
        ],
        [
          "vessel",
          "vessel"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A kind of passenger boat formerly used on canals."
      ],
      "id": "en-flyboat-en-noun-WhCEvtyc",
      "links": [
        [
          "passenger",
          "passenger"
        ],
        [
          "boat",
          "boat"
        ],
        [
          "canal",
          "canal"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "fly-boat"
    }
  ],
  "word": "flyboat"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English compound terms",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms borrowed from Dutch",
    "English terms derived from Dutch",
    "en:Watercraft"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "nl",
        "3": "vlieboot"
      },
      "expansion": "Dutch vlieboot",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fly",
        "3": "boat"
      },
      "expansion": "fly + boat",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Dutch vlieboot, but re-analysed as fly + boat.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "flyboats",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "flyboat (plural flyboats)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "August 14, 1595, Thomas Treffry, letter to Sir Robert Cecil\na ship of Bristol was chased into this harbour by two Spanish fly-boats, and they report […] that there are five men of war, Spanish, in the road of Conquet"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A large flat-bottomed Dutch coasting vessel."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Dutch",
          "Dutch"
        ],
        [
          "coast",
          "coast"
        ],
        [
          "vessel",
          "vessel"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A kind of passenger boat formerly used on canals."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "passenger",
          "passenger"
        ],
        [
          "boat",
          "boat"
        ],
        [
          "canal",
          "canal"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "fly-boat"
    }
  ],
  "word": "flyboat"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.