Usually means: Boat transporting people and vehicles.
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We found 39 dictionaries that define the word ferry:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. ferry: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. ferry: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ferry: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. ferry: Collins English Dictionary
  5. ferry: Vocabulary.com
  6. Ferry, ferry: Wordnik
  7. ferry: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Ferry, Ferry: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  9. Ferry, ferry: Wiktionary
  10. ferry: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. ferry: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. ferry: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Ferry, ferry: Dictionary.com
  14. ferry (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. ferry: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Ferry (disambiguation), Ferry, The Ferry (ward): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Ferry: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. ferry: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. ferry: Rhymezone
  20. ferry: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. ferry: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. ferry: Free Dictionary
  23. ferry: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. ferry: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. ferry: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. Ferry: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ferry: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. ferry: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. ferry: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. ferry: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Canoe Terminology (No longer online)

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  2. Ferry: Latitude Mexico

(Note: See ferried as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To carry; transport; convey.
verb:  (transitive) To move someone or something from one place to another, usually repeatedly.
verb:  (transitive) To carry or transport over a contracted body of water, as a river or strait, in a boat or other floating conveyance plying between opposite shores.
verb:  (intransitive) To pass over water in a boat or by ferry.
noun:  (nautical) A ship used to transport people, smaller vehicles and goods from one port to another, usually on a regular schedule.
noun:  A place where passengers are transported across water in such a ship.
noun:  The legal right or franchise that entitles a corporate body or an individual to operate such a service.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  A census-designated place in Denali Borough, Alaska, United States.
noun:  A township in Oceana County, Michigan, United States, named after Thomas W. Ferry.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Greene County, Ohio, United States.

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