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yachtsman en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Etymology

Etymology tree English yacht English -s- Proto-Indo-European *mon- Proto-Germanic *mann- Proto-West Germanic *mann Old English mann Middle English man Middle English -man English -man English yachtsman From yacht + -s- + -man.

Meanings

1. A man who sails a yacht.
   • […] needless to say, the thing that all the cautious and experienced yachtsmen had warned him against happened. The black squall out of nowhere, the sudden, senseless frenzy of wind and rain and waves… 1963, Aldous Huxley, chapter 1, in Island, New York: Bantam, page 6:
   • 1840, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Irish Sketch Book published together with The Paris Sketch Book of Mr. M. A. Titmarsh and Notes of a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo, New York: Caxton, Chapter 10, p. 379, […] and so ended, not without a sigh on my part, one of the merriest six-hour rides that five yachtsmen, one cockney, five women and a child, the carman, and a countryman with an alpeen, ever took in their lives.
   • We knew him already by sight as the owner of a little five-ton cutter, which he sailed alone apparently, a fellow yachtsman in the unpretending band of fanatics who cruise at the mouth of the Thames. But the first time he addressed the waiter sharply as ‘steward’ we knew him at once for a sailor as well as a yachtsman. 1913, Joseph Conrad, Chance, London: Methuen, published 1914, Part 1, Chapter One, p. 3:

Forms

Deriveds

yachtsmanship · yachtsmanlike

Hypernyms

yachtist · yachtsperson

Relateds

yachtsperson · yachtswoman

Translations (19)

gv birlingagh (man who sails a yacht) · ru яхтсме́н (man who sails a yacht) · ja ヨット乗り (man who sails a yacht) · da sejler (man who sails a yacht) · nl zeiler (man who sails a yacht) · ga luamhaire (man who sails a yacht) · da lystsejler (man who sails a yacht) · fi purjehtija (man who sails a yacht) · nb seiler (man who sails a yacht) · fr yachtsman (man who sails a yacht) · de Segler (man who sails a yacht) · nb segler (man who sails a yacht) · fr yachtman (man who sails a yacht) · it diportista (man who sails a yacht) · gv shiaulteyr birling (man who sails a yacht) · it velista (man who sails a yacht) · cmn 帆船運動員 /帆船运动员 (man who sails a yacht) · pt iatista (man who sails a yacht) · cmn 遊艇主 /游艇主 (man who sails a yacht)