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- Dictionaryfer·ry/ˈferē/
noun
- 1. a boat or ship for conveying passengers and goods, especially over a relatively short distance and as a regular service.
verb
- 1. convey in a ferry or other ship or boat, especially across a short stretch of water: "riverboats ferried weekend picnickers to the park" Similar
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The meaning of FERRY is to carry by boat over a body of water. How to use ferry in a sentence.
a boat or ship for taking passengers and often vehicles across an area of water, esp. as a regular service: There’s no bridge around here, but you can take a ferry across the river.
Ferry definition: a commercial service with terminals and boats for transporting persons, automobiles, etc., across a river or other comparatively small body of water.. See examples of FERRY used in a sentence.
A ferry is a boat that carries people, cars, and cargo back and forth across a body of water. The Staten Island Ferry ferries commuters from Manhattan to Staten Island every ten minutes during rush hour.
/ˈferi/ (plural ferries) a boat or ship that carries people, vehicles and goods across a river or across a narrow part of the sea. a passenger/car ferry. the Staten Island ferry. the ferry terminal at Calais. the Dover-Calais ferry crossing. the cross-channel ferry service. to take/catch the ferry. We boarded the ferry at Ostend.
A ferry is a boat that carries passengers or vehicles across a river or a narrow stretch of sea.
a. A ferryboat. b. A place where passengers or goods are transported across a body of water, such as a river or bay, by a ferryboat. 2. A franchise or legal right to operate a ferrying service for a fee. 3. A service and route for delivering an aircraft under its own power to its eventual user.
FERRY meaning: to carry or move (someone or something) on a vehicle (such as a boat or a car) usually for a short distance between two places.
FERRY definition: 1. a boat that regularly carries passengers and vehicles across an area of water: 2. to regularly…. Learn more.
To take (people, cars, etc.) across a river or narrow body of water in a boat, raft, etc. To cross (a river, etc.) on a ferry. To cross a river, etc. by ferry. To deliver (airplanes) by flying to the destination. To deliver (a vehicle, especially an aircraft) under its own power to its eventual user. A ferryboat.
