Definition of "steamboats" [steamboats]

• Plural form of steamboat. (noun)

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• "“Floating palaces,” people called steamboats, and “moving mountains of light and flame.”"
• ""steamboats" -- change them to all-electric paddlewheelers, with charging stations up and down the Nile River."
• "When Mr. Rogers supposes that if the miracles had not really happened they would have been challenged, he is assuming that a state of mind existed in which it was possible for miracles to be challenged; and thus commits an anachronism as monstrous as if he had attributed the knowledge of some modern invention, such as steamboats, to those early ages."