Cruise Meaning
/kɹuːz/Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounA sea or lake voyage, especially one taken for pleasure.
nounPortion of aircraft travel at a constant airspeed and altitude between ascent and descent phases.
Sentence Examples
The prize money enabled me to go on a world cruise.
In Hawaii, you can cruise all year round.
I'd love to go on a round-the-world cruise.
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CEFR Practice Quiz
We booked a luxury ____ to the Caribbean islands for our vacation.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The prize money enabled me to go on a world ____.
Word Origin & History
Borrowed from Dutch kruisen (“cross, sail around”), from kruis (“cross”), from Middle Dutch cruce, from Latin crux.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"Judge Short had gone to town, and Farrar was off for a three days' cruise up the lake. I was bitterly regretting I had not gone with him when the distant notes of a coach horn reached my ear, and I descried a four-in-hand winding its way up the inn road from the direction of Mohair."
— 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
"He departed with the Naniwa and the Hashidate²⁰ for a two day cruise, skirting the Wuchiu and Hui Ch’uan Islands and the shore of Fukien Province."
— 1936, Edwin A. Falk, Togo and the Rise of Japanese Sea Power, Longmans, Green and Co., →OCLC, →OL, page 229:
"I ended my cruise of four years in the Marine Corps at the first Officers' Training Camp for enlisted men at Quantico […]"
— 1919, United States. Marine Corps, Recruiters' Bulletin, page 16:
"The New Orleans had to have numerous alterations made, and as the Chicago was just about going into commission, I was ordered to that ship to finish my cruise."
— 2015, George Barnett, Andy Barnett, George Barnett, Marine Corps Commandant: A Memoir, 1877-1923:
"He and Gerald usually challenged the rollers in a sponson canoe when Gerald was there for the weekend; or, when Lansing came down, the two took long swims seaward or cruised about in Gerald's dory, clad in their swimming-suits; and Selwyn's youth became renewed in a manner almost ridiculous,[…]."
— 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter IX, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
We booked a luxury ____ to the Caribbean islands for our vacation.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The prize money enabled me to go on a world ____.