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YACHTING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does yachting mean?
• YACHTING (noun)
The noun YACHTING has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: YACHTING used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Water travel for pleasure
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
boating; yachting
Hypernyms ("yachting" is a kind of...):
seafaring; water travel (travel by water)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "yachting"):
bareboating (boating by chartering a bareboat and providing your own crew and provisions)
Derivation:
yacht (travel in a yacht)
Context examples
There was a small picture of Gatsby, also in yachting costume, on the bureau—Gatsby with his head thrown back defiantly—taken apparently when he was about eighteen.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
I began to walk about the room, examining various indefinite objects in the half darkness. A large photograph of an elderly man in yachting costume attracted me, hung on the wall over his desk.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
A few days later he took him to Duluth and bought him a blue coat, six pair of white duck trousers and a yachting cap. And when the Tuolomee left for the West Indies and the Barbary Coast Gatsby left too.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
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