ferry
- Top 5000
Sense 1
- noun
- B1
A boat that travels again and again between two places, taking people and often cars across water.
The ferry leaves every hour and the crossing takes forty minutes.
We missed the last ferry and had to sleep in the car.
A small ferry links the two villages on opposite banks.
Passengers must stay in their cars until the ferry has docked.
Common collocations: car ferry · take the ferry · catch a ferry · ferry terminal · ferry crossing · by ferry
Part of: Means of transport, Holidays, Airports and stations
Sense 2 · less common
- verb
- B2
To carry people or things a short distance from one place to another, usually doing it again and again.
Buses ferry workers from the car park to the factory gate.
She ferries her neighbours to the hospital twice a week.
Helicopters ferried food and blankets to the flooded villages.
Common collocations: ferry passengers · ferry supplies · ferry someone across · ferry back and forth
Part of: Means of transport
Forms
- past
- ferried
- plural
- ferries
- third_person
- ferries
- past_participle
- ferried