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Definition of houseboat noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

houseboat

noun

/ˈhaʊsbəʊt/

/ˈhaʊsbəʊt/

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a boat that people can live in, usually kept at a particular place on a river or canalTopics Houses and homesb2, Transport by waterb2

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