cruise

CEFRB1

/kɹuːz/

noun · verb

Türkçe translations

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A holiday on a ship that travels from place to place.

  2. 02

    verb

    To travel smoothly at a steady speed.

Examples

  • I'd love to go on a round-the-world cruise.

  • In Hawaii, you can cruise all year round.

At a glance

Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
2
Citations
5
Synonyms
1

Also pronounced

  • /kɹuz/
  • /kɹʉːz/

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. A period spent in the Marine Corps.

  2. Portion of aircraft travel at a constant airspeed and altitude between ascent and descent phases.

  3. A sea or lake voyage, especially one taken for pleasure.

More examples

In context

  • The prize money enabled me to go on a world cruise.

  • Germany cruised to a World Cup victory over the short-handed Australians.

  • 1970-1975, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure Lot of not too bad looking boys there but when M came in I knew right then: him. Very thin & feminine, brown hair fluffed around his sharp...

Synonyms

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Origin

noun

Borrowed from Dutch kruisen (“cross, sail around”), from kruis (“cross”), from Middle Dutch cruce, from Latin crux.