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Definitions and meaning of ferry

ferry

English

Etymology

From Middle English ferien (“to carry, convey, convey in a boat”), from Old English ferian (“to carry, convey, bear, bring, lead, conduct, betake oneself to, be versed in, depart, go”), from Proto-West Germanic *farjan, from Proto-Germanic *farjaną (“to make or let go, transfer, ferry”), from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to bring or carry over, transfer, pass through”).

Cognate with German dialectal feren, fähren (“to row, sail”), Danish færge (“to ferry”), Swedish färja (“to ferry”), Icelandic ferja (“to ferry”), Norwegian Nynorsk/Norwegian Bokmål ferje (“to ferry”) Old Norse ferja. Related to fare.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /ˈfɛɹi/
• (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈfeɹi/
• Rhymes: -ɛɹi
  • Homophone: fairy (only in accents with the Mary-marry-merry merger)

Verb

ferry (third-person singular simple present ferries, present participle ferrying, simple past and past participle ferried)

1. (transitive) To carry; transport; convey.
2. (transitive) To move someone or something from one place to another, usually repeatedly.
3. (transitive) To carry or transport over a contracted body of water, as a river or strait, in a boat or other floating conveyance plying between opposite shores.
4. (intransitive) To pass over water in a boat or by ferry.

Derived terms

Noun

ferry (plural ferries)

2. (nautical) A boat or ship used to transport people, smaller vehicles and goods from one port to another, usually on a regular schedule.

   Hypernyms: boat, ship < watercraft < vessel < vehicle < conveyance

   Coordinate terms: water bus, water taxi

   Near-synonym: ferryboat
3. A place where passengers are transported across water in such a ship.
4. The service constituted by this watercraft's operation; the business (company) that operates such a service.

5. 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

Derived terms

Descendants

Translations

See also

• boat
• ship

Anagrams

• Freyr, Fryer, fryer, refry

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English ferry.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɛ.ʁi/ ~ /fe.ʁi/

Noun

ferry m (plural ferries or ferrys)

1. ferry

Derived terms

• car-ferry

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English ferry.

Pronunciation

Noun

ferry m (plural ferries)

1. ferry (boat)

   Synonym: ferryboat

References

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English ferry.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈferi/ [ˈfe.ri]
• Rhymes: -eri
• Syllabification: fe‧rry

Noun

ferry m (plural ferrys or ferries)

1. alternative spelling of ferri

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

Further reading

• “ferry”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10