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schooner en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /skuːnə(ɹ)/
• (Australia) audio

Etymology

Attested ca. 1715, of uncertain origin. Said to be derived from dialectal scoon (“to skim over water”). Compare also shunt (“to cause to move (suddenly)”).

Meanings

1. A sailing ship with two or more masts, all with fore-and-aft sails; if two masted, having a foremast and a mainmast.
   • The night was considerably clearer than anybody on board her desired when the schooner Ventura headed for the land. 1907 January, Harold Bindloss, chapter 6, in The Dust of Conflict, 1st Canadian edition, Toronto, Ont.: McLeod & Allen, →OCLC:
   • In addition to the square-rigged sailing ships, the schooners were the second largest group of large sailing vessels. 2005, Otmar Schäuffelen, Chapman: Great Sailing Ships of the World, page xxi:
   • Designed by Frank Payne's renowned Boston design office, and built in 1928 of longleaf yellow pine, this 82-footer has been a racing schooner — a staysail schooner — since the heyday of Class-A ocean racing in schooners during the late 1920s and early 1930s. 2004, Reese Palley, The Best of Nautical Quarterly: Volume 1: The Lure of Sail, page 181:
   • Unfortunately, anyone looking for a schooner today has limited choices. In the used boat market there are always some wooden hulls available, and occasionally ones of steel or aluminum, but fiberglass-hulled schooners are harder to come by. 2007, Donald Launer, Lessons from My Good Old Boat, page 240:
2. (UK) A glass for drinking a large measure of sherry.
   • Boycott any pub that bans work clothes, allows customers to reserve tables or only sells beer in schooners. That is less a pub, more a private members’ club. 2018 June 6, Tony Naylor, “The new rules of pub etiquette: don't flirt with bar staff or steal the glasses”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
3. (Australia) A glass of beer, of a size which varies between states (Wikipedia).
   • For a true Adelaide experience, head for the bar and order a schooner of Coopers, the local brew, or a glass of SA′s impressive wine. 2009, Charles Rawlings-Way, Meg Worby, Lindsay Brown, Paul Harding, Central Australia: Adelaide to Darwin, Lonely Planet, page 59:
   • At first I refused, but ten schooners later I was ready to take on Jaws with a butterknife[.] 1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 193:
   • And needless to say, the Western Australia row will eventually be filled in as well, though not before drinking a schooner of the amber nectar in Perth. 2004, Ken Ewell, Voyages of Discovery: A Manly Adventure in the Lands Down Under, page 94:
   • Foaming schooners of beer grew ever larger and more numerous as the crimson February suns went to their rest. a. 1964, Arthur Upfield, “Fozen Pumps”, in Kees de Hoog, editor, Up and Down Australia: Short Stories Selected by Kees de Hoog, published 2008, page 67:
4. (US) A large goblet or drinking glass, used for lager or ale (Wikipedia).
5. (historical) A covered wagon used by emigrants.

Forms

Deriveds

prairie schooner · schooner bum · schooner on the rocks

Synonyms

goelette

Translations (71)

he סקונר (sailing ship) · ca goleta (sailing ship) · mk шхуна (sailing ship) · hu sóner (sailing ship) · cy sgwner (sailing ship) · hu szkúner (sailing ship) · da skonnert (sailing ship) · oc goleta (sailing ship) · nl schoener (sailing ship) · eo goeleto (sailing ship) · el σκούνα (sailing ship) · ja スクーナー (sailing ship) · tk şhuna (sailing ship) · ko 스쿠너 (sailing ship) · fr goélette (sailing ship) · es goleta (sailing ship) · sv skonare (sailing ship) · el ημιολία (sailing ship) · uk шхуна (sailing ship) · it goletta (sailing ship) · pl szkuner (sailing ship) · haw kune (sailing ship) · frr Skuuner (sailing ship) · ms skuner (sailing ship) · uz shxuna (sailing ship) · mi kūne (sailing ship) · fi kuunari (sailing ship) · cmn 雙桅縱帆船 /双桅纵帆船 (sailing ship) · af skoener (sailing ship) · ky шхуна (sailing ship) · lv šoneris (sailing ship) · ru шху́на (sailing ship) · az şxun (sailing ship) · cmn 雙桅帆船 /双桅帆船 (sailing ship) · nn skonnert (sailing ship) · sv skonert (sailing ship) · el γολέτα (sailing ship) · io skunero (sailing ship) · kl umiarsuaaraq (sailing ship) · it scuna (sailing ship) · pap golèt (sailing ship) · cmn 斯庫那 /斯库那 (sailing ship) · sh шкуна (sailing ship) · it schooner (sailing ship) · eo skuno (sailing ship) · sk škuner (sailing ship) · tr uskuna (sailing ship) · ta இசுக்கூனர் (sailing ship) · ka შხუნა (sailing ship) · sq skunë (sailing ship) · de Schoner (sailing ship) · io goeleto (sailing ship) · ar سكونة (sailing ship) · is skonnorta (sailing ship) · tl skuner (sailing ship) · sh škuna (sailing ship) · gl goleta (sailing ship) · be шху́на (sailing ship) · bg шхуна (sailing ship) · id sekunar (sailing ship) · es escuna (sailing ship) · ro goeletă (sailing ship) · nb skonnert (sailing ship) · cs škuner (sailing ship) · ia goletta (sailing ship) · kk шхуна (sailing ship) · pt escuna (sailing ship) · et kuunar (sailing ship) · lt škuna (sailing ship) · ga scúnar (sailing ship) · eu goleta (sailing ship)