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1862, in the meaning defined above

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“Yachtsman.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary , Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/yachtsman. Accessed 31 Mar. 2024.

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• crew member
• longshoreman
• run away to sea idiom

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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

Words Nearby yachtsman

• yacht chair
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• yackety-yak
• yada-yada-yada

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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

Definition of 'yachtsman'

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In other languages yachtsman

• American English : yachtsman / yˈɒtsmən /
• Brazilian Portuguese : iatista
• Chinese : 帆船手
• European Spanish : aficionado a la vela
• French : navigateur
• German : Segler
• Italian : yachtsman
• Japanese : ヨット乗り
• Korean : 요트 타는 사람
• European Portuguese : proprietário ou timoneiro de um iate
• Spanish : aficionado a la vela

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

• a round-the-world yachtsman

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