raft

CEFRB1

/ɹɑːft/

noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A flat structure that floats and carries people or things.

  2. 02

    noun

    A large number or amount of something.

Examples

  • It was an adventure going down the river on a raft.

  • The raft has drifted far off from the shore.

At a glance

Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. A thick crowd of seabirds or sea mammals, particularly a group of penguins when in the water.

  2. Any flattish thing, usually wooden, used in a similar fashion.

  3. A flat-bottomed craft able to float and drift on water, used for transport or as a waterborne platform.

More examples

In context

  • They floated down the river on an inflatable raft

  • 1977-1980, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure Pomeroy asked me a raft of factual-type questions (how old were you when you began menstruating? did you ever see your parents having inter...

  • Even though in a way you let him freeze to death in the water, because the way I see it... I agree. Y'know, I think he actually could have fitted on that bit of door. There was plenty of room on the raft. I know. I know, I know.

Quick test

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We tied logs together to form a blank that could carry us across the lake.

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Origin

noun

Late Middle English, of North Germanic origin, from West Old Norse raptr, from Proto-Germanic *raf-tra-, from Proto-Indo-European *rap-tro-, from *rep- (“stake, beam”). See also Norwegian raft (“beam, rafter”), Danish raft (“thin pole”). Compare also Albanian trap (“raft, ferry”).