ferry
A boat or ship used to transport people, smaller vehicles and goods from one port to…A boat or ship used to transport people, smaller vehicles and goods from one port to another, usually on a regular schedule.
Meaning
4 sensesA boat or ship used to transport people, smaller vehicles and goods from one port to another, usually on a regular schedule.
Near-synonym: ferryboat
Islanders normally have to queue for half an hour to get on the ferry.
Fähre
паро́мparóm
поро́мporóm
a boat that transports people or vehicles across a body of water and operates on a regular schedule
A place where passengers are transported across water in such a ship.
The service constituted by this watercraft's operation; the business (company) that operates such a service.
In those days there was a ferry at Sleepytown. Modern roads and bridges for motor vehicles have rendered such local river ferries obsolete.
The legal right or franchise that entitles a corporate body or an individual to operate such a service: a right of ferry.
granted a ferry to
Examples
77 sentencesTom is waiting for the ferry.
ruТом ждёт парома. — Wezel
The next ferry isn't until tomorrow morning.
deDie nächste Fähre geht erst morgen früh. — Waldelfe
They run a ferry service across the river.
deSie betreiben einen Fährdienst über den Fluss. — Tamy
Three men on board the ferry were found murdered.
We took a ferry from the island to the mainland.
ruМы перебрались с острова на материк на пароме. — Wezel
Translations
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Origin
The verb is from Middle English ferien (“to carry, convey”), from Old English ferian, fromThe verb is from Middle English ferien (“to carry, convey”), from Old English ferian, from Proto-West Germanic *farjan, from Proto-Germanic *farjaną, which see for cognates. This verb is the causative of Proto-Germanic *faraną (“to go, travel”), whence English fare; ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European root *per-.
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