steamboat

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)A boat or vessel propelled by steam power.

   “By and by the steamboat intruded. Then for fifteen or twenty years, these men continued to run their keelboats down-stream, and the steamers did all of the upstream business, the keelboatmen selling their boats in New Orleans, and returning home as deck passengers in the steamers.”

2. (Malaysia, Singapore, uncountable)Hot pot (Chinese dish).
3. (Malaysia, Singapore, countable)A metal pan, sometimes divided into sections or having a central flue, for heating this kind of hot pot.

verb

1. To travel by steamboat.

name

1. (abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis)Ellipsis of Steamboat Springs: a city, the county seat of Routt County, Colorado, United States.
2. A neighborhood of Steamboat Springs, Washoe, Nevada, United States.