"showboat" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈʃoʊˌboʊt/ [General-American] Audio: en-au-showboat.ogg [Australia] Forms: showboats [plural]
Etymology: show + boat Etymology templates: {{compound|en|show|boat}} show + boat Head templates: {{en-noun}} showboat (plural showboats)
  1. (US) A river steamboat having a resident theatre. Tags: US Categories (topical): Watercraft Translations (river steamer with theatre): evenementenboot (Dutch), teatterilaiva (Finnish), bateau-théâtre [masculine] (French), Theaterschiff [neuter] (German), סְפִינַת שַׁעֲשׁוּעִים (sfinat sha'ashu'im) [feminine] (Hebrew), színházhajó (Hungarian), battello-teatro [masculine] (Italian), teaterbåt [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-showboat-en-noun-R-gZVVLh Disambiguation of Watercraft: 53 27 19 Categories (other): American English Disambiguation of 'river steamer with theatre': 90 10
  2. (informal, chiefly US, by extension) A showoff. Tags: US, broadly, informal
    Sense id: en-showboat-en-noun-0psQMj5n Categories (other): American English, English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 20 56 24 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 15 66 18

Verb

IPA: /ˈʃoʊˌboʊt/ [General-American] Audio: en-au-showboat.ogg [Australia] Forms: showboats [present, singular, third-person], showboating [participle, present], showboated [participle, past], showboated [past]
Etymology: show + boat Etymology templates: {{compound|en|show|boat}} show + boat Head templates: {{en-verb}} showboat (third-person singular simple present showboats, present participle showboating, simple past and past participle showboated)
  1. (informal, chiefly US) To show off. Tags: US, informal Synonyms: grandstand [verb]
    Sense id: en-showboat-en-verb-~PaReFDw Categories (other): American English

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for showboat meaning in English (4.5kB)

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