Noun: catamaran
| Singular | catamaran |
| Plural | catamarans |
Sample Sentences
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Swift over the seas the vessel drives; Madras appears in sight. The first object catching the eye, upon the anchor being cast, was an Indian upon his catamaran, who, making a sudden motion, sprung to the side of the ship, grappled there for a moment, and the next was on the deck. [1838, [Letitia Elizabeth] Landon (indicated as editor), chapter XV, in Duty and Inclination: […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 218:]
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She meddles with my prescriptions for your wife; she doctors the infant in private: you'll never have a quiet house or a quiet wife as long as that old Catamaran is here. [1889, William Makepeace Thackeray, Hobson's Choice:]
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Three or four strange-looking things now came close to our boat, which I understood were called ‘catamarans’, consisting of nothing more than two or three large trees, the trunk part only strongly lashed together, upon which sat two men nearly in a state of nature […] . [1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 90]
Nouns inflected like catamaran
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Tamil கட்டுமரம் (kaṭṭumaram), from கட்டு (kaṭṭu, “to tie”) + மரம் (maram, “tree, wood”).
Verbs referencing "catamaran"
French Nouns
catamaran, Romanian Nouns
catamaran, Finnish Nouns
katamaraani, Danish Nouns
katamaran, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns
katamaran, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns
katamaran, Portuguese Nouns
catamarã, Spanish Nouns
catamarán, Catalan Nouns
catamarà.