regatta
noun/rɪˈɡætə/
/rɪˈɡætə/, /rɪˈɡɑːtə/
- a sporting event in which races between rowing boats or sailing boats are heldTopics Sports: water sportsc2Oxford Collocations DictionaryRegatta is used after these nouns:
- sailing
Word Originearly 17th cent.: from Italian (Venetian dialect), literally ‘a fight, contest’.Definitions on the go
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