We took a ferry from the island to the mainland.
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Ferry
//ˈfɛɹ.i//
Synonyms for "ferry" (170 found)
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Closest matches (34)
Strong matches (51)
Related words (85)
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17 entriesShowing 16 of 17 words.
Synonyms
1 entriesRelated terms
2 entriesat location
1 entriescoordinate
2 entriesderived
39 entriesShowing 16 of 39 words.
etymologically related_to
1 entrieshas context
1 entriesis a
4 entriesmanner of
3 entriesrelated to
68 entriesShowing 16 of 68 words.
used for
3 entriesTranslations
133 translations across 83 languages.
Afrikaans
2 entries- veer noun (boat)
- veerboot noun (boat)
Albanian
1 entries- trap noun (boat)
Ancient Greek
3 entries- πέραμα noun (boat)
- πορθμεῖον noun (boat)
- πορθμεῖον noun (place)
Arabic
3 entries- عبارة noun (boat)
- عَبَّارَة noun (boat)
- مُعَدِّيَة noun (boat)
Armenian
1 entries- լաստանավ noun (boat)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- bərə noun (boat)
Baekje
1 entries- 津 noun (boat)
Belarusian
1 entries- паро́м noun (boat)
Bulgarian
1 entries- фе́рибот noun (boat)
Burmese
2 entries- ကူးတို့ noun (boat)
- ကူးတို့ဆိပ် noun (boat)
Catalan
2 entries- bac noun (boat)
- rai noun (boat)
Chechen
1 entries- бурам noun (boat)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 渡船 noun (boat)
- 渡輪 /渡轮 noun (boat)
Czech
2 entries- přívoz noun (boat)
- trajekt noun (boat)
Danish
1 entries- færge noun (boat)
Dutch
4 entries- ferry noun (boat)
- ferryboot noun (boat)
- pont noun (boat)
- pontveer noun (boat)
Egyptian
1 entries- DA-A-t:P1 noun (boat)
Esperanto
1 entries- pramo noun (boat)
Estonian
2 entries- parvlaev noun (boat)
- praam noun (boat)
Finnish
2 entries- autolautta noun (boat)
- lautta noun (boat)
French
3 entries- bac noun (boat)
- ferry noun (boat)
- transbordeur noun (boat)
Galician
1 entries- transbordador noun (boat)
Georgian
1 entries- ბორანი noun (boat)
German
1 entries- Fähre noun (boat)
Greek
1 entries- πορθμείο noun (boat)
Hebrew
1 entries- מעבורת \ מַעְבֹּרֶת noun (boat)
Hindi
3 entries- जलयान noun (boat)
- फ़ेरी noun (boat)
- यात्री-नौका noun (boat)
Hungarian
1 entries- komp noun (boat)
Icelandic
1 entries- ferja noun (boat)
Indonesian
1 entries- feri noun (boat)
Iranian Persian
2 entries- فَرابَر noun (boat)
- کَشْتیِ گُذارِه noun (boat)
Irish
2 entries- bád calaidh noun (boat)
- carrchaladh noun (boat)
Italian
1 entries- traghetto noun (boat)
Japanese
3 entries- フェリー noun (boat)
- 渡し船 noun (boat)
- 渡船 noun (boat)
Kazakh
2 entries- паром noun (boat)
- сал қайық noun (boat)
Khmer
2 entries- កប៉ាល់ចម្លង noun (boat)
- ទូកចម្លង noun (boat)
Korean
4 entries- 나루배 noun (boat)
- 나룻배 noun (boat)
- 수송선 noun (boat)
- 연락선 noun (boat)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- паром noun (boat)
Lao
1 entries- ສັດຈອງ noun (boat)
Latin
1 entries- pontō noun (boat)
Latvian
1 entries- prāmis noun (boat)
Limburgish
1 entries- vaer noun (boat)
Lithuanian
1 entries- keltas noun (boat)
Lower Sorbian
2 entries- prama noun (boat)
- pśewóz noun (boat)
Luxembourgish
1 entries- Fähr noun (boat)
Macedonian
1 entries- траект noun (boat)
Malay
1 entries- feri noun (boat)
Malayalam
1 entries- കടത്ത് noun (boat)
Mongolian
1 entries- гаталга онгоц noun (boat)
Māori
2 entries- waka kōpiko noun (boat)
- waka whakawhiti noun (boat)
Navajo
1 entries- tsin naaʼeeł diné bee nágéhé noun (boat)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- ferge noun (boat)
- ferje noun (boat)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- ferje noun (boat)
Occitan
3 entries- bac noun (boat)
- ferri noun (boat)
- transbordador noun (boat)
Ojibwe
1 entries- aazhawaʼoodoon noun (boat)
Old East Slavic
1 entries- поромъ noun (boat)
Pannonian Rusyn
1 entries- траєкт noun (boat)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- Promm noun (boat)
Polish
1 entries- prom noun (boat)
Portuguese
1 entries- balsa noun (boat)
Romanian
1 entries- bac noun (boat)
Russian
1 entries- паро́м noun (boat)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- aiseag noun (boat)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- skȅla noun (boat)
- tràjekt noun (boat)
- ске̏ла noun (boat)
- тра̀јект noun (boat)
Slovak
1 entries- trajekt noun (boat)
Slovene
1 entries- trajekt noun (boat)
Spanish
2 entries- ferri noun (boat)
- transbordador noun (boat)
Swahili
1 entries- feri noun (boat)
Swedish
1 entries- färja noun (boat)
Tagalog
4 entries- badeyo noun (boat)
- bangkang pantawid noun (boat)
- ferry noun (boat)
- tabaw noun (boat)
Tajik
2 entries- киштии гузора noun (boat)
- паром noun (boat)
Thai
3 entries- เฟอร์รี noun (boat)
- เรือข้ามฟาก noun (boat)
- เรือจ้าง noun (boat)
Tibetan
1 entries- གྲུ་ཤན noun (boat)
Turkish
3 entries- araba vapuru noun (boat)
- feribot noun (boat)
- vapur noun (boat)
Turkmen
2 entries- parohod noun (boat)
- parom noun (boat)
Ukrainian
1 entries- поро́м noun (boat)
Urdu
1 entries- فیری noun (boat)
Uyghur
1 entries- پاروم noun (boat)
Uzbek
1 entries- parom noun (boat)
Vietnamese
1 entries- phà noun (boat)
Volapük
1 entries- lovenaf noun (boat)
West-Frisian
1 entries- fear noun (boat)
Yiddish
2 entries- פּאַראָם noun (boat)
- פּראָם noun (boat)
Sample sentences
23 total sentences available.
We had a rough crossing on an old ferry.
Source: tatoeba (23009)
The ferry started to move and we were across in half an hour.
Source: tatoeba (34393)
There were not more than one hundred passengers on board the ferry.
Source: tatoeba (34394)
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