STEAMBOAT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does steamboat mean? 

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

1. a boat propelled by a steam engine

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• STEAMBOAT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A boat propelled by a steam engine

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

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

boat (a small vessel for travel on water)

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

showboat (a river steamboat on which theatrical performances could be given (especially on the Mississippi River))

 Context examples 

When the steamboat arrived at Dawson, White Fang went ashore.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

"Save in the white man's fire-boat which is of iron and is bigger than twenty steamboats on the Yukon," said Ebbits.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Evidently the strange steamboat had lowered its boats.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

We and our fathers before us lived much the same life, but they with their railway trains and their steamboats belong to a different age.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It is conjectured that he may have been hurrying down to catch the last train from Waterloo Station, and that in his haste and the extreme darkness he missed his path and walked over the edge of one of the small landing-places for river steamboats.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Now let me say that what I would is this: while you, my Lord Godalming and friend Jonathan go in your so swift little steamboat up the river, and whilst John and Quincey guard the bank where perchance he might be landed, I will take Madam Mina right into the heart of the enemy's country.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

He is on white man's fire-boat, what you call steamboat, only he is on boat maybe twenty times bigger than steamboat on Yukon.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

From the Yukon arose the hoarse bellowing of a river steamboat.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Nothing was to be seen of the strange steamboat which had caused the disaster, though I heard men saying that she would undoubtedly send boats to our assistance.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

He would come running at the first sound of a steamboat's whistle; and when the last fight was over and White Fang and the pack had scattered, he would return slowly to the fort, his face heavy with regret.

(White Fang, by Jack London)