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yacht

noun
🔊/jɒt/
🔊/jɑːt/
(North American English also sailboat)
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  1. a large sailing boat, often also with an engine and a place to sleep on board, used for pleasure trips and racing帆船；游艇；快艇
    • a yacht club/race帆船俱乐部／比赛
    • a motor yacht摩托艇
    • a luxury yacht豪华游艇
    compare dinghyTopics Transport by waterb2, Sports: water sportsb2
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • luxury
    • private
    • royal
    • …
    verb + yacht
    • cruise on
    • sail
    • moor
    • …
    yacht + verb
    • sail
    • set sail
    yacht + noun
    • race
    • club
    preposition
    • aboard a/​the yacht
    • on a/​the yacht
    • on board a/​the yacht
    • …
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    Word Originmid 16th cent.: from early modern Dutch jaghte, from jaghtschip ‘fast pirate ship’, from jag(h)t ‘hunting’ + schip ‘ship’.