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land yacht

land yacht

1 8.5
A vehicle with wheels and a sail that moves across land using wind
  • noun
  • /lænd jɑt/
translation icon : yate de tierra
  • - I'm revamping that lovely land yacht... that Demille used in Northwest Mounted.

Examples

  • Luke Moeller sped across the field on his land yacht, feeling the wind propel him forward.

  • Land yacht?

    Sullivan's Travels (1941)

  • Is there a land yacht waiting here?

    Sullivan's Travels (1941)

  • I'd like to introduce you to a land yacht called the RV.

  • During the race, competitors maneuvered their land yachts deftly to catch the best gusts of wind.

  • The land yacht glided smoothly over the flat terrain, thanks to the strong winds.

Surface Forms

land yacht singular
land yachts plural

Morphology

land + yacht

The meaning 'a wheeled vehicle with a sail used on land' is directly and predictably built from 'land' (on the ground) + 'yacht' (a sailing vessel) so a learner who knows both words can infer a yacht adapted for land. This noun–noun compounding follows common English patterns (and similar formations exist in many languages), making the expression immediately understandable to a B1 learner.

Etymology

Land yacht may come from the simple picture of a yacht on land. People built wheeled vehicles with large sails that move by the 'wind', so the name now means a wheeled vehicle with a sail that travels across land.