The family used to go on pontoon rides down the creek every Fourth of July.
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Pontoon
//pɒnˈtuːn//
Synonyms for "pontoon" (17 found)
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Translations
41 translations across 24 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- argsh noun (buoyant support for a temporary bridge, dock or landing stage)
Belarusian
1 entries- панто́н noun (buoyant support for a temporary bridge, dock or landing stage)
Bulgarian
2 entries- понто́н noun (buoyant support for a temporary bridge, dock or landing stage)
- понто́н noun (box used to raise a sunken vessel)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 浮筒 noun (buoyant support for a temporary bridge, dock or landing stage)
Czech
1 entries- ponton noun (buoyant support for a temporary bridge, dock or landing stage)
Danish
1 entries- ponton noun (buoyant support for a temporary bridge, dock or landing stage)
Finnish
3 entries- ilmatyyny noun (float of a seaplane)
- ponttoni noun (buoyant support for a temporary bridge, dock or landing stage)
- ponttoni noun (box used to raise a sunken vessel)
French
2 entries- flotteur noun (buoyant support for a temporary bridge, dock or landing stage)
- ponton noun (buoyant support for a temporary bridge, dock or landing stage)
German
1 entries- Ponton noun (buoyant support for a temporary bridge, dock or landing stage)
Hungarian
1 entries- ponton noun (buoyant support for a temporary bridge, dock or landing stage)
Irish
3 entries- pontún noun (buoyant support for a temporary bridge, dock or landing stage)
- pontún noun (box used to raise a sunken vessel)
- pontún noun (float of a seaplane)
Japanese
1 entries- ポンツーン noun (buoyant support for a temporary bridge, dock or landing stage)
Macedonian
1 entries- понтон noun (buoyant support for a temporary bridge, dock or landing stage)
Māori
1 entries- kōrewa noun (float of a seaplane)
Norwegian Bokmål
3 entries- flytebrygge noun (buoyant support for a temporary bridge, dock or landing stage)
- pongtong noun (buoyant support for a temporary bridge, dock or landing stage)
- pongtong noun (float of a seaplane)
Norwegian Nynorsk
4 entries- flytebrygge noun (buoyant support for a temporary bridge, dock or landing stage)
- flytebryggje noun (buoyant support for a temporary bridge, dock or landing stage)
- pongtong noun (buoyant support for a temporary bridge, dock or landing stage)
- pongtong noun (float of a seaplane)
Polish
2 entries- ponton noun (buoyant support for a temporary bridge, dock or landing stage)
- pływak noun (float of a seaplane)
Portuguese
1 entries- pontão noun (buoyant support for a temporary bridge, dock or landing stage)
Romanian
2 entries- ponton noun (buoyant support for a temporary bridge, dock or landing stage)
- ponton noun (box used to raise a sunken vessel)
Russian
3 entries- понто́н noun (buoyant support for a temporary bridge, dock or landing stage)
- понто́н noun (box used to raise a sunken vessel)
- поплаво́к noun (float of a seaplane)
Slovak
1 entries- pontón noun (buoyant support for a temporary bridge, dock or landing stage)
Spanish
1 entries- pontón noun (buoyant support for a temporary bridge, dock or landing stage)
Swedish
3 entries- ponton noun (buoyant support for a temporary bridge, dock or landing stage)
- ponton noun (box used to raise a sunken vessel)
- ponton noun (float of a seaplane)
Ukrainian
1 entries- понто́н noun (buoyant support for a temporary bridge, dock or landing stage)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
The pontoon raft has a 4-meter-tall silver metal column in the center, with a white box on top that points toward the sky above the scenic Patuxent River in Maryland.
Source: tatoeba (12273447)
The children jumped off the pontoon into the lake.
Source: tatoeba (12904362)
Thanks to the previous experience of the chief performers, to careful preparation and rehearsal, and to perfect weather conditions, they watched in breath-bated silence the spectacle of the huge bulk moving without a hitch into position over the temporary pier caps on which it settled as water ballast was admitted to the pontoons.
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