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Webster 1913 Edition

Lifeboat

Life′boatˊ

(līf′bōtˊ)

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Noun.

A strong, buoyant boat especially designed for saving the lives of shipwrecked people.

Definition 2025

lifeboat

lifeboat

English

Noun

lifeboat ‎(plural lifeboats)

A boat especially designed for saving the lives of shipwrecked people.

Synonyms

quarter boat, rowboat, raft

Derived terms

Translations

a boat to save shipwrecked people

Arabic: قَارِب نَجَاةَ m ‎(qārib najāha)
Catalan: bot salvavides m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 救生船 (zh) ‎(jiùshēngchuán), 救生艇 (zh) ‎(jiùshēngtǐng)
Czech: záchranný člun m
Dutch: reddingsboot (nl) m, f
Finnish: pelastusvene (fi)
French: radeau de survie m
German: Rettungsboot (de) n
Hebrew: סירת הצלה (he)
Hungarian: mentőcsónak (hu)
Icelandic: björgunarbátur (is) m
Indonesian: sekoci (id)
Italian: scialuppa di salvataggio f, scialuppa (it) f

Japanese: 救命ボート ‎(きゅうめいボート, kyūmei bōto)
Maori: poti whakaora
Norman: baté d'sauvetage m
Latvian: glābšanas laivas
Norwegian:
Bokmål: livbåt m
Polish: łódź ratunkowa f
Portuguese: barco salva-vidas m
Russian: спаса́тельная ло́дка f ‎(spasátelʹnaja lódka)
Scottish Gaelic: bàta-teasairginn m, bàta-sàbhalaidh m
Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: чамац за спасавање m

Roman: čamac za spasavanje m
Spanish: bote salvavidas m
Swedish: livbåt (sv) c