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PRONUNCIATION OF STOWAWAY

stowaway  [ˈstəʊəˌweɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF STOWAWAY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Stowaway is a verb and can also act as 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.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb stowaway in English.

WHAT DOES STOWAWAY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

stowaway

Stowaway

A stowaway is a person who secretly boards a vehicle, such as an aircraft, bus, ship, cargo truck or train, to travel without paying and without being detected.

Definition of stowaway in the English dictionary

The definition of stowaway in the dictionary is a person who hides aboard a vehicle, ship, or aircraft in order to gain free passage. Other definition of stowaway is to travel in such a way.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO STOWAWAY

PRESENT

Present
I stowaway
you stowaway
he/she/it stowaways
we stowaway
you stowaway
they stowaway
Present continuous
I am stowawaying
you are stowawaying
he/she/it is stowawaying
we are stowawaying
you are stowawaying
they are stowawaying
Present perfect
I have stowawayed
you have stowawayed
he/she/it has stowawayed
we have stowawayed
you have stowawayed
they have stowawayed
Present perfect continuous
I have been stowawaying
you have been stowawaying
he/she/it has been stowawaying
we have been stowawaying
you have been stowawaying
they have been stowawaying
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I stowawayed
you stowawayed
he/she/it stowawayed
we stowawayed
you stowawayed
they stowawayed
Past continuous
I was stowawaying
you were stowawaying
he/she/it was stowawaying
we were stowawaying
you were stowawaying
they were stowawaying
Past perfect
I had stowawayed
you had stowawayed
he/she/it had stowawayed
we had stowawayed
you had stowawayed
they had stowawayed
Past perfect continuous
I had been stowawaying
you had been stowawaying
he/she/it had been stowawaying
we had been stowawaying
you had been stowawaying
they had been stowawaying
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will stowaway
you will stowaway
he/she/it will stowaway
we will stowaway
you will stowaway
they will stowaway
Future continuous
I will be stowawaying
you will be stowawaying
he/she/it will be stowawaying
we will be stowawaying
you will be stowawaying
they will be stowawaying
Future perfect
I will have stowawayed
you will have stowawayed
he/she/it will have stowawayed
we will have stowawayed
you will have stowawayed
they will have stowawayed
Future perfect continuous
I will have been stowawaying
you will have been stowawaying
he/she/it will have been stowawaying
we will have been stowawaying
you will have been stowawaying
they will have been stowawaying
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would stowaway
you would stowaway
he/she/it would stowaway
we would stowaway
you would stowaway
they would stowaway
Conditional continuous
I would be stowawaying
you would be stowawaying
he/she/it would be stowawaying
we would be stowawaying
you would be stowawaying
they would be stowawaying
Conditional perfect
I would have stowaway
you would have stowaway
he/she/it would have stowaway
we would have stowaway
you would have stowaway
they would have stowaway
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been stowawaying
you would have been stowawaying
he/she/it would have been stowawaying
we would have been stowawaying
you would have been stowawaying
they would have been stowawaying
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you stowaway
we let´s stowaway
you stowaway
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to stowaway
Past participle
stowawayed
Present Participle
stowawaying
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH STOWAWAY


airway
ˈɛəˌweɪ
breakaway
ˈbreɪkəˌweɪ
caraway
ˈkærəˌweɪ
castaway
ˈkɑːstəˌweɪ
cutaway
ˈkʌtəˌweɪ
fadeaway
ˈfeɪdəˌweɪ
fairway
ˈfɛəˌweɪ
faraway
ˈfɑːrəˌweɪ
Galloway
ˈɡæləˌweɪ
giveaway
ˈɡɪvəˌweɪ
Hathaway
ˈhæθəˌweɪ
hideaway
ˈhaɪdəˌweɪ
motorway
ˈməʊtəˌweɪ
rockaway
ˈrɒkəˌweɪ
stairway
ˈstɛəˌweɪ
takeaway
ˈteɪkəˌweɪ
throwaway
ˈθrəʊəˌweɪ
towaway
ˈtəʊəˌweɪ
walkaway
ˈwɔːkəˌweɪ
waterway
ˈwɔːtəˌweɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE STOWAWAY

stoutly
stoutness
stoutness of heart
stovaine
stove
stove enamel
stovepipe
stovepipe hat
stovepipes
stover
stovetop
stovies
stow
stowable
stowage
stowdown
Stowe
stower
stowlins
stowp

WORDS THAT END LIKE STOWAWAY

away
come away
from away
get away
getaway
give away
give the game away
go away
keep away
layaway
once and away
out and away
put away
right away
run away
runaway
straight away
take away
turn away
walk away

Synonyms and antonyms of stowaway in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «stowaway» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF STOWAWAY

Find out the translation of stowaway to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of stowaway from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «stowaway» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

偷乘者
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

polizón
570 millions of speakers

English

stowaway
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

घुसपैठ
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

المسافرين خلسة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

безбилетного пассажира
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

passageiro clandestino
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ঐভাবে জাহাজে লুকিয়ে-থাকা লোক
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

passager clandestin
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Stowaway
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

blinder Passagier
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

密航者
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

밀항자
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Stowaway
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

người đi tàu lậu
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

stowaway
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

स्टॉवेव
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

kaçak yolcu
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

passeggero clandestino
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

pasażer na gapę
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

безквиткового пасажира
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

pasager clandestin
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

λαθρεπιβάτης
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

verstekeling
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

fripassagerare
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

blindpassasjer
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of stowaway

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «STOWAWAY»

The term «stowaway» is quite widely used and occupies the 48.629 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «STOWAWAY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «stowaway» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «stowaway» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «STOWAWAY»

Discover the use of stowaway in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to stowaway and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Stowaway
A fictionalized journal relates the experiences of a young stowaway from 1768 to 1771 aboard the Endeavor which sailed around the world under Captain James Cook.
Karen Hesse, 2000
2
Stowaway!: Adventures at Sea
The reader determines what happens in a story about a character who sneaks aboard pirate Captain Rockhopper's ship and is discovered, in a text where a choice can be made between being sent back to the safety of Club Penguin or becoming a ...
Tracey West, 2008
3
Stowaway!
This adventure story recounts the first round-world voyage of Tudor explorer Sir Francis Drake through the eyes of Dickon, a lame stowaway, who goes on to become Drake's cabin boy and personal hero.
Julia Jarman, 2007
4
Shackleton's Stowaway
Victoria McKernan deftly weaves the hard-to-fathom facts of this famous voyage into an epic, edge-of-your-seat survival novel. From the Hardcover edition.
Victoria McKernan, 2008
5
Stowaway
StowawayTalya BoscoAurelia is on the run.
Talya Bosco, 2009
6
Stowaway
A personal account of the Hindenburg disaster A stowaway slips on board the German Hindenburg airship at the beginning of its last fatal flight—and survives to recount the story of its dramatic landing in America.
Sean Callery, 2010
7
Stowaway Monster
Eli stows away on a ship bound for America when he discovers a cargo of dragon eggs.
Michael Dahl, 2009
8
Stowaway
He’s handsome, hot, hunted and hurt...a plea for help from this detective is one her heart can’t refuse.
Becky Barker, 2011
9
The Stowaway: A Novel
The novel begins in the spring of 1996 when Rodolfo Miguel, a bosun on the Taiwanese container ship Maersk Dubai, discovers a hungry and frightened pair of Romanian stowaways.
Robert Hough, 2013
10
The Stowaway: A Tale of California Pirates
In 1818 Carlito, an eleven-year-old boy in the Spanish-owned town of Monterey, California, sees his quiet life threatened when the Argentinian privateer Hippolyte de Bouchard attacks with his pirate ships.
Kristiana Gregory, 1997

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «STOWAWAY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term stowaway is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Woman known as 'serial stowaway' arrested again
'Serial stowaway' before latest arrest: 'Even smart people do stupid things' as ... She said Thursday that she was done with stowaway attempts and would stay ... «Chicago Tribune, Jul 15»
2
Watch This Pilot Discover a Sneaky Cat Stowaway Mid-Flight
A video going viral shows a cat clinging to the wing of a plane after it took off from club ULM 16-34, a flight school in Kourou, French Guiana — and the surprised ... «TIME, Jun 15»
3
Suspected jet stowaway who survived 8000-mile flight from South …
A suspected stowaway who survived an 8,000-mile flight during which air temperatures plunged to minus 50C – a journey that apparently ended in the death of ... «The Independent, Jun 15»
4
Stowaway Found Dead on Cargo Ship in Delaware River
An autopsy will be performed Tuesday on the body of a man believed to be a stowaway found on a cargo ship docked in Philadelphia. (Published Tuesday, May ... «NBC 10 Philadelphia, May 15»
5
Stowaway survives 2-hour flight in plane's wheel well
The stowaway scaled a 8-foot fence to reach the aircraft, where he tucked himself into the rear wheel housing, media said. He collapsed after the flight and was ... «New York Post, Apr 15»
6
New York airport alarm reveals stowaway dog
US security agents searching a checked suitcase after an alarm went off at New York's LaGuardia Airport expected the usual contraband - guns, knives or a ... «Stuff.co.nz, Mar 15»
7
TSA discovers stowaway Chihuahua in owner's suitcase
Farbstein said the woman called her husband, who went to the airport to pick up the four-legged stowaway and take it home. On its website, TSA has a section ... «Today.com, Mar 15»
8
Serial stowaway is arrested in Florida at coastal resort near …
"Serial Stowaway" Marilyn Jean Hartman has been caught doing what she appears to be good at, traveling for free. She is known for repeatedly trying to board ... «CNN, Feb 15»
9
Serial Stowaway Marilyn Hartman: Why'd They Let Me?
A 62-year-old woman with a history of sneaking aboard planes — she was arrested three times in August alone for boarding planes or loitering in airports ... «NBCNews.com, Aug 14»
10
Stowaway Marilyn Hartman Arrested at Phoenix Airport
A woman who sneaked onto a flight from San Jose to Los Angeles last month was arrested Tuesday at a Phoenix airport where she was spotted near a baggage ... «NBCNews.com, Aug 14»

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