different between yacht vs pilothouse

English

Etymology

Circa 1557; variant of yaught, earlier yeaghe (“light, fast-sailing ship”), from Dutch jacht (“yacht; hunt”), in older spelling jaght(e), short for jaghtschip (“light sailing vessel, fast pirate ship”, literally “pursuit ship”), compound of jacht and schip (“ship”).

In the 16th century the Dutch built light, fast ships to chase the ships of pirates and smugglers from the coast. The ship was introduced to England in 1660 when the Dutch East India Company presented one to King Charles II, who used it as a pleasure boat, after which it was copied by British shipbuilders as a pleasure craft for wealthy gentlemen.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /j?t/
• (US) IPA^(key): /j?t/
• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

yacht (plural yachts)

1. A slick and light ship for making pleasure trips or racing on water, having sails but often motor-powered. At times used as a residence offshore on a dock.
2. Any vessel used for private, noncommercial purposes.

   • “I don’t mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera, […], the chlorotic squatters on huge yachts, […], the neurotic victims of mental cirrhosis, the jewelled animals whose moral code is the code of the barnyard—!"

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

yacht (third-person singular simple present yachts, present participle yachting, simple past and past participle yachted)

1. (intransitive) To sail, voyage, or race in a yacht.

Translations

Anagrams

• Cathy, tachy, tachy-, yatch

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English yacht, from Dutch.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /j?t/

Noun

yacht m (plural yachts)

1. Yacht.

Further reading

• “yacht” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English yacht.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?j?t/

Noun

yacht m (invariable)

1. yacht
2. The letter Y in the Italian spelling alphabet

References

• yacht in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from English yacht.

Noun

yacht ? (plural yachts)

1. (Jersey) yacht

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Dutch jacht, via English yacht

Noun

yacht m (definite singular yachten, indefinite plural yachter, definite plural yachtene)

1. a yacht

References

• “yacht” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Dutch jacht, via English yacht

Noun

yacht m (definite singular yachten, indefinite plural yachtar, definite plural yachtane)

1. a yacht

References

• “yacht” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from English yacht.

Noun

yacht c

1. yacht

Declension

English

Etymology

pilot +? house

Noun

pilothouse (plural pilothouses)

1. (nautical) A wheelhouse.
   • 1899, Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness, ch 2:

     The funnel projected through that roof, and in front of the funnel a small cabin built of light planks served for a pilot-house.

2. A yacht or other small vessel which has a wheelhouse.