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" You know, when they called me about the role, I thought Knots Landing was a show about a houseboat with Andy Griffith!"
Donna Mills

Meaning of "houseboat" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF HOUSEBOAT

ˈhaʊsˌbəʊt


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HOUSEBOAT

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Houseboat is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES HOUSEBOAT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Houseboat

A houseboat is a boat that has been designed or modified to be used primarily as a home. Some houseboats are not motorized, because they are usually moored, kept stationary at a fixed point and often tethered to land to provide utilities. However, many are capable of operation under their own power. Float house is a Canadian and U.S. term for a house on a float, a rough house may be called a shanty boat.

Definition of houseboat in the English dictionary

The definition of houseboat in the dictionary is a stationary boat or barge used as a home.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH HOUSEBOAT

airboat · catboat · dreamboat · fireboat · gunboat · iceboat · keelboat · lifeboat · longboat · motorboat · powerboat · rowboat · sailboat · sauceboat · showboat · speedboat · steamboat · towboat · tugboat · workboat

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HOUSEBOAT

house-proud · house-sat · house-sit · house-sitter · house-sitting · house-to-house · house-train · house-trained · house-warming · house-warming party · houseboater · housebound · houseboy · housebreak · housebreaker · housebreaking · housecarl · housecoat · housedress · housefather

WORDS THAT END LIKE HOUSEBOAT

banana boat · boat · cockleboat · ferryboat · fishing boat · flat-bottomed boat · in the same boat · jet boat · miss the boat · narrow boat · paddle boat · pilot boat · pleasure boat · riverboat · rock the boat · sauce boat · stoneboat · torpedo boat · U-boat · whaleboat

Synonyms and antonyms of houseboat in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «houseboat» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR

TRANSLATION OF HOUSEBOAT

Find out the translation of houseboat to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of houseboat from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «houseboat» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

船屋
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

casa flotante
570 millions of speakers
en

English

houseboat
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

हाउसबोट
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

المركب
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

плавучий дом
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

houseboat
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

বাসযোগ্য বজরা
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

péniche
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Bot rumah
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

Hausboot
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

屋形船
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

하우스 보트
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Omah-omahé
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

thuyền sửa lại để ở
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

ஹவுஸ்போட்டில்
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

हाऊसबोट
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

yüzen ev
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

casa galleggiante
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

BARKA
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

плавучий будинок
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

houseboat
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

πλωτό σπίτι
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

huisboot
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

husbåt
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

husbåten
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of houseboat

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HOUSEBOAT»

Principal search tendencies and common uses of houseboat
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «houseboat».

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about houseboat

EXAMPLES

QUOTES WITH «HOUSEBOAT»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word houseboat.
1
Donna Mills
You know, when they called me about the role, I thought Knots Landing was a show about a houseboat with Andy Griffith!

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HOUSEBOAT»

Discover the use of houseboat in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to houseboat and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Houseboat Mystery
Floating down a lazy river, Benny finds a blackmail scheme in progress.
Gertrude Chandler Warner, 1990
2
Houseboat
Describes how people live on a houseboat, inlcuding the rooms commonly found and their purpose.
Lola M. Schaefer, 2002
3
The Houseboat Book
Presents a pictorial survey, with interior and exterior photographs, of houseboats and floating homes in the United States and Canada, with a brief history and information on what is involved with living on the water.
Barbara Flanagan, 2003
4
Houseboat Mystery
When the Aldens float a rented houseboat down the river, they begin to notice strange things are happening in the river towns.
Gertrude Chandler Warner, Joeming W. Dunn, 2011
5
The Bobbsey Twins on a Houseboat
"A houseboat," said Freddie. "It's a house on a boat, and you can live in it on water." " Huh ! " said Johnnie. " There isn't any such thing." "Yes, there is, too, isn't there, Flossie?" and Freddie appealed to his small sister. " 'Course there is," she  ...
Laura Lee Hope, 1915
6
Popular Mechanics
BOATING IF YOU THINK OF A HOUSEBOAT as a run-down shanty anchored to a mud-filled barge that's so full of dry rot every footstep's an adventure, you're living in the past. Suddenly the houseboat image has changed — and changed ...
7
The Houseboat Book: The Log of a Cruise from Chicago to New ...
The great bookstores were ransacked for books descriptive of houseboat trips down the Mississippi. There were none. Then we asked for charts of the Illinois and Mississippi. There were none of the former in existence ; of the latter the ...
William Francis Waugh, 1904
8
Popular Science
Houseboat or cruiser? Boatel's 40-ft. Bluewater combines racy V-shaped hull and oversized superstructure. Traditional pontoon houseboat has evolved into a mobile vacation cottage, like this 36-ft. Harris Floting Queen. Rugged deserts of the ...
9
Handmade Houseboats: Independent Living Afloat
Describes the pleasures of living in a houseboat, explains each step in construction, and discusses plumbing, electricity, heating, ventilation, and cooking facilities.
Russell Conder, 1992
10
Houseboat Girl
houseboat of all. Just a little shove from Old Garrety's bulldozer had been enough . The houseboat slid down the slick peeled willow poles on which it had been resting, right into the water. Due to the falling river and the slackening current, ...
Lois Lenski, 2011

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HOUSEBOAT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term houseboat is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Fears for woman missing from Qld houseboat - 9news.com.au
Grave fears are held for a woman who went missing from a houseboat in crocodile and shark-infested waters off the north Queensland coast ... «9news.com.au, Jul 15»
2
David Gilmour reveals details of new solo album, plus North …
Recording took place mostly in Gilmour's Brighton, UK studio as well as on his houseboat. The title track to Rattle That Lock, which also serves ... «Consequence of Sound, Jul 15»
3
Gilmore Estate 'Houseboat' - 7 unique homes you can buy right now …
The 60-foot houseboat in the Florida Keys sits on five acres, including 300 feet of beach. The two-bedroom, two-bathroom boat was built in ... «CNNMoney, Jul 15»
4
Houseboat community riots; 12 arrested - This Forgotten Day in S.F. …
Houseboat community riots; 12 arrested - This Forgotten Day in S.F. ... to arrest the “Father” of the Sausalito houseboat community, Piro Caro. «SFGate, Jul 15»
5
District to re-purpose houseboat kiosk
The district will take back the wheel of the houseboat information kiosk now that it's been set adrift by the local chamber. Council agreed to write ... «Sicamous Eagle Valley News, Jul 15»
6
Big, Yellow Northlake Floating Home Lists For $519K - Curbed Seattle
Buy the right houseboat and get a deck and a dock and probably some ducks and - let's just skip playing with the rest of the vowels, now. «Curbed Seattle, Jul 15»
7
Why first-time buyers shouldn't chose a houseboat
With London's property market still very much on the boil, first-time buyers would be forgiven for thinking life on a houseboat is one way they ... «GQ.com, Jul 15»
8
'Technical glitch' to blame for £14m tag on house – with mystery …
He added: “We thought they had confused us with another street somewhere else, maybe close to Gleneagles, but where the houseboat came ... «The National, Jul 15»
9
Edmonton woman dies in houseboat accident in B.C.
Andrea Jacura was swimming in the lake behind a houseboat, said RCMP Const. Patrick Pyper. The boat's motor was put into reverse and ... «Edmonton Journal, Jul 15»
10
Three people dead in separate accidents on BC lakes
SICAMOUS — A houseboat holiday in British Columbia has come to a horrifying end for an Alberta family. Const. Pat Pyper said a 22-year-old ... «Vancouver Sun, Jul 15»
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