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- pronunciation:
- fe
ri
- parts of speech:
- noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb
- features:
- Word Combinations (noun, verb), Homophone Note, Word Explorer, Word Parts
| part of speech: |
noun |
| inflections: |
ferries |
| definition 1: |
a boat or ship used to carry people, vehicles, and other things across a bay, river, lake, or channel.
Before the bridge was built many people took the ferry across the river.We went by ferry from the Netherlands to England.
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| definition 2: |
a business set up to carry people, vehicles, and other things across a bay, river, lake, or channel by boat or ship.
An entrepreneur bought the ferry and has kept it going in rather tough financial times. |
| definition 3: |
a terminal for a ferry service.
We waited a long time at the ferry for our car to come off. |
| definition 4: |
a service for transporting, esp. planes to their overseas buyers.
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adjective + (n.)ferry
accessible, choppy, fast, golden, high-speed, marine, wooden
verb + (n.)ferry
board, catch, commute, disembark, drown, hop, pace, restore, ride
(n.)ferry
+ verb
approach, capsize, churn, cross, depart, dock, head, land, load, market, operate, ply, sail, sink, transport
noun + (n.)ferry
bridge,
bus,
captain,
car,
cavalier,
commuter,
cruise,
deck,
express,
fleet,
gate,
harbor,
helicopter,
highway,
lake,
larkspur,
mile,
minute,
passage,
passenger,
peninsula,
rail,
river,
sea,
seashore,
ship,
strait,
taxi,
train,
translation,
tugboat,
vessel
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| part of speech: |
transitive verb |
| inflections: |
ferries, ferrying, ferried |
| definition: |
to transport (people, vehicles, goods, and the like) by boat or plane, esp. across water.
A small plane ferried tourists to the island. |
| related words: |
drive |
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| part of speech: |
intransitive verb |
| definition: |
to go by ferry.
We enjoyed a nice meal as we ferried across the bay. |
(v.)ferry
+ adverb
across, around, ashore, forth
(v.)ferry
+ noun
aircraft,
brown,
building,
cargo,
chinook,
church,
crew,
dock,
equipment,
good,
guest,
hospital,
island,
landing,
merchant,
operator,
park,
personnel,
plane,
plaza,
road,
safety,
soldier,
station,
supply,
terminal,
ton,
tourist,
travel,
troop,
visitor,
wine,
worker
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Are you looking for the word fairy (an imaginary creature)? Ferry and fairy sound alike but have different meanings.
The word ferry
contains the following part:
fer, lat2, -late
Latin
root
that means carry, bring
  More about this word part:
Example words:
ablate, ablation, afferent, aquifer, collate, collation, confer, conference, conifer, correlate, defer1, differ, different, elate, elation, ferry, infer, offer, prefer, preference, preferable, prelate, proliferate, refer, relate, relation, relative, rotifer, suffer, transfer, translate, translation
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