superyacht

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noun

A very large luxury yacht.

UncommonScrabble 20

Meanings

nounsuperyacht (plural superyachts)

plural superyachts

  1. A very large luxury yacht.

    If it has crew working aboard, it's a yacht. If it's more than ninety-eight feet [30 m], it's a superyacht.

    2022 July 18, Evan Osnos, “The Haves and the Have-Yachts”, in The New Yorker, →ISSN, archived from the original on 02 Dec 2022
    2 more examples

    Tom Perkins[…] is putting his superyacht, the Maltese Falcon, up for sale, just two years after he first set sail on it.

    2008 March 30, Elizabeth Olson, “A Google Friend Is Now Facebook’s”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 Nov 2022

    This latest concept comes as demand for superyachts continues to grow – the global fleet jumped from 3,906 crafts in 2009 to 5,646 in 2019, according to the Superyacht Group. […] Recent examples include Ultra2, a new 95-meter superyacht from Berlin-based T.Fotiadis Design that has its own on-board safe room.

    2020 November 25, Tamara Hardingham-Gill, “The $550 million megayacht concept that looks like a shark”, in CNN, archived from the original on 18 May 2022

    Synonyms: megayacht, white boat

Synonyms & antonyms

nounA very large luxury yacht.

Also see

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*úp
  2. Proto-Indo-European*upér
  3. Proto-Italic*super
  4. Latinsuper
  5. Latinsuper-
  6. Englishsuper-
  7. Englishyacht
  8. Englishsuperyacht

From super- + yacht.

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Translations

Russian суперъя́хта
  • суперъя́хта (superʺjáxta)Translations
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APA

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Chicago

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