steamboat
IPA: stˈimboʊt
noun
- A boat or vessel propelled by steam power.
- (uncountable, Singapore, Malaysia) Hot pot (Chinese dish).
- A neighborhood of Steamboat Springs, Washoe, Nevada, United States.
- Short for Steamboat Springs. (a city in Routt, Colorado, United States). [A hot spring field in Routt County, Colorado, United States.]
verb
- To travel by steamboat.
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Examples of "steamboat" in Sentences
- The steamboat arrived on the river.
- This is the end of the working steamboat.
- It was the last steamboat to ply the river.
- The front of the building was a steamboat motif.
- The first steamboat to pass through was the Uncas.
- A steamboat plies the waters of the Missouri River.
- The Steamboat Ski Resort operates on of the mountain.
- Then the uninjured crewmen remembered the Norwich steamboat.
- The first steamboat in America floated on the stream in 1763.
- After the arrival of the railroads in the 1880, steamboat traffic diminished.
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