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ferry

/ˈfɛɹi/noun, verb2 syllables

Ferry means: a boat that transports people or vehicles across a body of water and operates on a regular schedule.

Synonyms for ferry2

noun, as in a boat that transports people or vehicles across a body of water and operates on a regular schedule

ferryboat

noun, as in transport by boat or aircraft

ferrying

What does ferry mean?5

noun

1

a boat that transports people or vehicles across a body of water and operates on a regular schedule

2

transport by boat or aircraft

verb

1

transport from one place to another

2

transport by ferry

3

travel by ferry

Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What rhymes with ferry?25

three syllables

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Ferry in a sentence

  • We should go now, perhaps, to catch the ferry.Objectivesea
  • We took a ferry from the island to the mainland.CK
  • We had a rough crossing on an old ferry.auxitt
  • The ferry started to move and we were across in half an hour.Swift
  • There were not more than one hundred passengers on board the ferry.Swift
  • They run a ferry service across the river.CK
  • They took a ferry to a nearby island for the day.Igider
  • Ziri takes that ferry four times a day.Amastan

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Forms of ferry

as a noun

plural
ferries

as a verb

past tense
ferried
present participle
ferrying
third-person singular
ferries
past participle
ferried