yachtsman noun

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Definition of yachtsman noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

• a round-the-world yachtsman

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a person who owns or sails a yacht , or who is devoted to yachting .

Origin of yachtsman

Usage note for yachtsman, other words from yachtsman.

• yachts·man·ship, yacht·man·ship, noun

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How to use yachtsman in a sentence

Following an arrest for a DUI, assault and disorderly conduct in Colorado in 1974, she hitchhiked to Florida, where she married Lewis Gratz Fell, a wealthy yachtsman 50 years her senior in 1976.

One of the things which make a yachtsman ask if life is worth living is to run hard on the putty.

If the yachtsman has on board a seine net, he may realise something of the miraculous draught of fishes mentioned in the Bible.

The man had an air of easy assurance; and, besides, the request was one that any yachtsman would willingly grant.

Mr. Ford was an experienced yachtsman ; would he look after the ladies, ask whom he liked?

No landsman, no amateur yachtsman , could write a book like this.

British Dictionary definitions for yachtsman

Feminine yachtswoman.

/ ( ˈjɒtsmən ) /

a person who sails a yacht or yachts

Derived forms of yachtsman

• yachtsmanship , noun

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

• 1.1 Alternative forms
• 1.2 Etymology
• 1.3 Pronunciation
• 1.4.1 Hypernyms
• 1.4.2 Derived terms
• 1.4.3 Related terms
• 1.4.4 Translations
• 2.1 Alternative forms
• 2.2 Etymology
• 2.3 Pronunciation
• 2.5 Further reading
• 2.6 Anagrams

English [ edit ]

Alternative forms [ edit ].

• yachtman ( dated )

Etymology [ edit ]

From yacht +‎ -s- +‎ -man .

Pronunciation [ edit ]

Noun [ edit ].

yachtsman ( plural yachtsmen )

• 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, [1] [ … ] 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.
• 1913 , Joseph Conrad , Chance ‎ [2] , London: Methuen, published 1914 , Part 1, Chapter One, p. 3: 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 .
• 1963 , Aldous Huxley , chapter 1, in Island ‎ [3] , New York: Bantam, page 6: [ … ] 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…

Hypernyms [ edit ]

• yachtsperson

Derived terms [ edit ]

• yachtsmanlike
• yachtsmanship

Related terms [ edit ]

• yachtswoman

Translations [ edit ]

French [ edit ].

Borrowed from English yachtsman .

• IPA ( key ) : /jɔts.man/

yachtsman   m ( plural yachtsmans or yachtsmen , feminine yachtswoman )

Further reading [ edit ]

• “ yachtsman ”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [ Digitized Treasury of the French Language ] , 2012.

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  Dictionary entry overview: What does yachtsman mean?  

• YACHTSMAN (noun)   The noun YACHTSMAN has 1 sense:

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• YACHTSMAN (noun)

Sense 1

A person who owns or sails a yacht

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Nouns denoting people

yachtsman; yachtswoman

Hypernyms ("yachtsman" is a kind of...):

crewman ; sailor (any member of a ship's crew)

  Context examples  

Then I bethought me of the great yachtsman ’s knife he always carried, and I came to him and spoke to him, first softly, then loudly.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The languid loungers of St. James’s were also the yachtsmen of the Solent, the fine riders of the shires, and the hardy fighters in many a wayside battle and many a morning frolic.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

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• They spent their annual holiday on a chartered yacht in the Caribbean .
• He spent three days adrift on his yacht.
• His eyes were fixed on the distant yacht.
• If they can afford a yacht, they must be rolling in it.
• She sailed around the world single-handed in her yacht.
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What does the noun sand-yachtsman mean?

There is one meaning in OED's entry for the noun sand-yachtsman . See ‘Meaning & use’ for definition, usage, and quotation evidence.

Entry status

OED is undergoing a continuous programme of revision to modernize and improve definitions. This entry has not yet been fully revised.

Where does the noun sand-yachtsman come from?

Earliest known use

The earliest known use of the noun sand-yachtsman is in the 1960s.

OED's only evidence for sand-yachtsman is from 1967, in the Sunday Times (London).

sand-yachtsman is formed within English, by derivation.

Etymons: sand-yacht n.

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Originally published as part of the entry for sand-yacht, n.

sand-yacht, n. was first published in 1982; not yet revised.

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