FERRYBOAT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ferryboat mean? 

• FERRYBOAT (noun)
  The noun FERRYBOAT has 1 sense:

1. a boat that transports people or vehicles across a body of water and operates on a regular schedule

  Familiarity information: FERRYBOAT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FERRYBOAT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A boat that transports people or vehicles across a body of water and operates on a regular schedule

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

ferry; ferryboat

Hypernyms ("ferryboat" is a kind of...):

boat (a small vessel for travel on water)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ferryboat"):

car-ferry (a ferry that transports motor vehicles)

 Context examples 

Most of the big shore places were closed now and there were hardly any lights except the shadowy, moving glow of a ferryboat across the Sound.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)