"navigable" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /ˈnævɪɡəbəl/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-navigable.wav [Southern-England] Forms: more navigable [comparative], most navigable [superlative]
Etymology: From Middle French navigable, from Latin navigabilis. Etymology templates: {{der|en|frm|navigable}} Middle French navigable, {{der|en|la|navigabilis}} Latin navigabilis Head templates: {{en-adj}} navigable (comparative more navigable, superlative most navigable)
  1. (of a body of water) Capable of being navigated; deep enough and wide enough to afford passage to vessels.
    Sense id: en-navigable-en-adj--j7Uz~xG
  2. (of a boat) Seaworthy; in a navigable state; steerable.
    Sense id: en-navigable-en-adj-tEU42Zm9
  3. (of a balloon) Steerable, dirigible. Translations (for a balloon): управляем (upravljaem) (Bulgarian), пловен (ploven) (Macedonian)
    Sense id: en-navigable-en-adj-msH6fV3D Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 18 27 36 19 Disambiguation of 'for a balloon': 0 0 100 0
  4. Easy to navigate.
    Sense id: en-navigable-en-adj-4273K425
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: navigatable [nonstandard, possibly] Derived forms: keyboard-navigable, navigable waters, navigability Related terms: navigatable, navigate, navigation, navigator Translations (for a boat): годен за плаване (goden za plavane) (Bulgarian), navegable (Catalan), merikelpoinen (Finnish), пловен (ploven) (Macedonian), yn-stiurey (Manx) Translations (for a body of water: sea, river etc.): ναυσίπορος (nausíporos) (Ancient Greek), судаходны (sudaxódny) (Belarusian), плавателен (plavatelen) (Bulgarian), navegable (Catalan), splavný (Czech), bevaarbaar (Dutch), navigebla (Esperanto), purjehduskelpoinen (Finnish), navigable (French), schiffbar (German), עָבִיר לְשַׁיִט (avir leshayit) (Hebrew), пловен (ploven) (Macedonian), yn-shiaulley (Manx), farbar (Norwegian Bokmål), seilbar (Norwegian Bokmål), farbar (Norwegian Nynorsk), żeglowny (Polish), navegável (Portuguese), судохо́дный (sudoxódnyj) (Russian), navegable (Spanish)
Disambiguation of 'for a boat': 0 0 0 0 Disambiguation of 'for a body of water: sea, river etc.': 53 47 0 0

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        "(of a balloon) Steerable, dirigible."
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      "sense": "for a body of water: sea, river etc.",
      "word": "yn-shiaulley"
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      "word": "farbar"
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      "sense": "for a body of water: sea, river etc.",
      "word": "farbar"
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      "sense": "for a body of water: sea, river etc.",
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      "word": "судохо́дный"
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      "sense": "for a body of water: sea, river etc.",
      "word": "navegable"
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      "sense": "for a boat",
      "word": "navegable"
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      "word": "merikelpoinen"
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      "code": "gv",
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      "sense": "for a boat",
      "word": "yn-stiurey"
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      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "upravljaem",
      "sense": "for a balloon",
      "word": "управляем"
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      "code": "mk",
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      "roman": "ploven",
      "sense": "for a balloon",
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}

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