different between motocycle vs scooter

English

Noun

motocycle (plural motocycles)

1. (US, dated) A horseless carriage.

See also

• motorcycle

Anagrams

• colectomy

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?.t?.sikl/

Noun

motocycle m (plural motocycles)

1. (dated or formal) motorcycle

Synonyms

• moto
• motocyclette

Descendants

Further reading

• “motocycle” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

From scoot +? -er.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?sku?t?(?)/
• Rhymes: -u?t?(r)

Noun

scooter (plural scooters)

1. A kick scooter or push scooter; a human-powered land vehicle with a handlebar, deck and wheels that is propelled by a rider pushing off the ground.
2. A electric version of the kick scooter.

   Synonyms: e-scooter, motorized scooter

3. A motorscooter; a small motorcycle or moped with a step-through frame.
4. A mobility scooter; an electric-powered scooter specially designed for disabled and/or elderly people.
5. An ice scooter; a type of flat-bottomed, buoyant ice yacht used in the state of New York, equipped with runners for traveling over ice.
6. Any of the large, black ducks of the genus Melanitta; the scoter.

Derived terms

Descendants

Translations

See also

• moped

Verb

scooter (third-person singular simple present scooters, present participle scootering, simple past and past participle scootered)

1. To ride on a scooter.

Derived terms

• scootering

Translations

Anagrams

• Cooters, cooters

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English scooter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sku.t?r/
• Rhymes: -ut?r

Noun

scooter m (plural scooters, diminutive scootertje n)

1. scooter

See also

• motorfiets

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English scooter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sku.tœ?/

Noun

scooter m (plural scooters)

1. scooter (motor-powered bicycle, sailing vessel)

Further reading

• “scooter” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English scooter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sku.ter/, [?s?ku?t?er?]
• Hyphenation: scoo?ter

Noun

scooter m (invariable)

1. (vehicles) scooter, specifically:
   1. (nautical) A type of flat-bottomed, buoyant ice yacht, designed to travel over ice.
   2. motor scooter
   3. Short for acquascooter; water scooter

Derived terms

• acquascooter
• scooterista

Anagrams

• costerò, cretoso, estorco, scoterò

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English scooter

Noun

scooter m (definite singular scooteren, indefinite plural scootere, definite plural scooterne)

1. a scooter (type of motorcycle)
2. short for snøscooter, vannscooter.

Alternative forms

• skuter

Derived terms

• snøscooter
• vannscooter

References

• “scooter” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “scooter” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English scooter

Noun

scooter m (definite singular scooteren, indefinite plural scooterar, definite plural scooterane)

1. a scooter (type of motorcycle)
2. short for snøscooter, vasscooter etc..

Alternative forms

• skuter

Derived terms

• snøscooter
• vasscooter, vass-scooter

References

• “scooter” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /es?kute?/, [es?ku.t?e?]

Noun

scooter m (plural scooters or scooter)

1. scooter (vehicle)