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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Any of various relatively small sailing or motor-driven vessels, generally with smart graceful lines, used for pleasure cruises or racing.
  2. v. To sail, cruise, or race in a yacht.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A vessel propelled either by sails or by steam, most often light or comparatively small, but sometimes of large size, used for pleasure-trips or for racing, or as a vessel of state to convey persons of distinction by water. There are two distinct types of sailing yacht: the racer with large spars and sails and fine lines, but sacrificing comfort to speed; and the commodious well-proportioned cruising-yacht. Sailing yachts are seldom or never of a more elaborate rig than that of the schooner; but steam-vessels of every class from launches up are common as yachts.
  2. To sail or cruise in a yacht.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A slick and light ship for making pleasure trips or racing on water, having sails but often motor-powered. At times used as a residence offshore on a dock (Wikipedia).
  2. n. Any vessel used for private, noncommercial purposes.
  3. v. intransitive To sail, voyage, or race in a yacht.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Naut.) A light and elegantly furnished vessel, used either for private parties of pleasure, or as a vessel of state to convey distinguished persons from one place to another; a seagoing vessel used only for pleasure trips, racing, etc.
  2. v. To manage a yacht; to voyage in a yacht.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. an expensive vessel propelled by sail or power and used for cruising or racing
  2. v. travel in a yacht

Etymologies

  1. Ca. 1557; variant of yaught, earlier yeaghe ("light, fast-sailing ship"), from obsolete Dutch jaght(e) ("hunt") (modern jacht), short for jaghtschip, jageschip ("light sailing vessel, fast pirate ship"), literally, "pursuit ship", compound of jagen ("to hunt, chase") and schip ("ship") (see ship), from Proto-Germanic *jagōnan (cf. West Frisian jeie, German jagen, Swedish jaga), from Proto-Indo-European *yegʰo- (compare Irish éad ("jealousy"), Russian ярый (âryj, "furious"), Albanian gjah ("hunt"), Ancient Greek ζητέω (zētéō, "to search, seek"), Sanskrit यवन (yāvana, "barbarian; agressor"), यत्न (yātna, "zeal")). (Wiktionary)
  2. Probably obsolete Norwegian jagt, from Middle Low German jacht, short for jachtschip : jagen, to chase (from Old High German jagōn) + schip, ship. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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hypernyms (3)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. vessel
  1. watercraft
  1. boat

same context (24)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. steamer
  2. cruiser
  3. schooner
  4. barge
  1. frigate
  2. liner
  3. craft
  4. boat
  1. sloop
  2. submarine
  3. freighter
  4. canoe
  1. brig
  2. galley
  3. pinnace
  4. cutter
  1. fleet
  2. automobile
  3. helicopter
  4. shuttle
  1. skiff
  2. tanker
  3. airplane
  4. ferry

rhymes (61)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. Bhatt
  2. Dot
  3. Kott
  4. Lot
  5. Lotte
  6. Minot
  7. Montserrat
  8. Mott
  9. Ott
  10. Sadat
  11. Scot
  12. Scott
  1. Spot
  2. Stott
  3. Surat
  4. Swat
  5. Watt
  6. allot
  7. alot
  8. baht
  9. blot
  10. bott
  11. bought
  12. brott
  1. cannot
  2. caught
  3. clot
  4. clott
  5. cot
  6. cott
  7. dot
  8. forgot
  9. got
  10. hot
  11. hott
  12. jot
  1. khat
  2. knot
  3. lat
  4. lot
  5. mott
  6. motte
  7. not
  8. nott
  9. ott
  10. plot
  11. pot
  12. pott
  1. rot
  2. schott
  3. scot
  4. shot
  5. shott
  6. slot
  7. spot
  8. squat
  9. stott
  10. swat
  11. tot
  12. trot
  1. watt

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. yacht
  2. yachter
  3. yachting
  4. sonderclass
  5. Corinthian
  6. fin keel
  7. Marconi rig
  8. knockabout
  9. fluke
  10. gingerbread
  11. half-rater
  1. hasp-hinge
  2. raceabout
  3. r. y.
  4. yacht-built
  5. yacht-club
  6. yachtsman
  7. yachtsmanship
  8. yeaghe
  9. mark-boat
  10. pot-lead
  11. skimming-dish
  1. sloop-yacht
  2. steam-yacht
  3. straightaway
  4. ballast-fin
  5. brute
  6. clip
  7. ice-yachtsman
  8. picked
  9. palatial
  10. bareboat
  11. yachtswoman
  1. genoa
  2. burgee
  3. spinnaker
  4. commodore
  5. fluent
  6. luff
  7. pulpit
  8. Bermuda rig
  9. bermudan rig
  10. bermudian rig
  11. cup
  1. fantail
  2. point
  3. pumpkin-seed
  4. quickness
  5. rocker
  6. seam
  7. boat-boom
  8. ice-scooter
  9. jib-traveler
  10. leader-block
  11. line
  1. steerer
  2. yawl

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  1. nautical
  1. often misspelled
  1. boat
  1. ship
  1. maritime
  1. cvccc
  1. sea

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  1. catherine
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  1. mary
  1. royal caroline
  1. william and mary

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  • ruzuzu You walked into the party like you were walking onto a yacht. Dec 21, 2010

  • bilby There's a cafe by the marina here called Yotz. Does that help? Dec 22, 2009

  • mjk Why isn't yacht spelled yaght like bight/Bucht, cough/Keuch, daughter/Tochter, eight/acht, freight/Fracht, haught/hoch, laughter/Lachter, might/Macht, naught/nichts, sought/sucht, weight/Gewicht, etc.? Dec 22, 2009

  • reesetee Really? I think it looks snazzy. Oct 30, 2007

  • chained_bear I really like this word, and like the pronunciation and everything. But it looks like it feels, and kinda sounds, to throw up.

    I don't know why. Oct 30, 2007

  • reesetee See cavalry (oddly enough) for some entertaining alternate spellings of this word. Oct 30, 2007

  • reesetee WOW! Nice riposte and exquisite avoidance of the question! I doff my hat to you, sir.

    Well, I'm not wearing one, but if I were, I'd be doffing, by God. Oct 29, 2007

  • uselessness What's the point? When not even death can stop true love, why bother? ;-) Oct 29, 2007

  • chained_bear ...but what about pirates??? Oct 29, 2007

  • uselessness What, every word of that was true! ;-) Oct 29, 2007

  • reesetee You see? The man's an artist. Oct 29, 2007

  • skipvia I am without words, U. Oct 29, 2007

  • uselessness Actually, the word chasing refers to the pursuit of pleasure. Similar to the modern-day pleasure cruise, which is much slower than one might expect from "cruising." Of course the root of such phrases stems from Solomon's book of wisdom, Ecclesiastes, in which he declares that "everything is vanity, a chasing after the wind," inexorably tying the pleasures of the world to the breeze, and by extension, sailboats. Oct 29, 2007

  • reesetee Are you taking uselessness' madeupical etymology course, chained_bear? ;-) Oct 29, 2007

  • chained_bear Well, if you're a pirate, you'd naturally want a fast ship. And if you're a king, you'd also want the fastest ship you could get.

    Let me pause here for a refreshing break.

    "Every ship but your four fastest, you mean."

    "Yes, naturally not those four."

    Thank you. This break brought to you by the word page dulcet.

    And the best way to show off a fast ship, if you're a pirate, is to hunt/catch a whole lotta others. But once the golden age of piracy is over, what's left to do? If you still like fast ships, I guess you need to start having yacht races. Oct 29, 2007

  • reesetee Possibly! The etymology mentions it in reference to "light sailing vessels" used especially for royalty, "fast piratical ships," and those used for hunting. Apparently the meaning shifted at some point to refer to racing craft as well. Oct 29, 2007

  • chained_bear That is cool. I wonder if by "chasing" they could also have meant "racing." Oct 28, 2007

  • reesetee It is, isn't it, SoG? I was curious so I checked the etymology. It comes from the Dutch jaght or jacht, as in jaghtschip, which literally meant "ship for chasing." Presumably not a pleasure craft as we think of it nowadays. :-) Oct 28, 2007

  • sonofgroucho What a strange little word this is! Oct 28, 2007

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