life preserver

life preserver

See also: lifepreserver

English

a life preserver

Noun

life preserver (plural life preservers)

1. (US) A buoyant ring or vest intended to keep a person afloat.

   Synonym: (UK) life buoy

2. (dated, UK) A short club with a weighted end.
   • 1879, Gilbert and Sullivan, "With Cat-Like Tread", The Pirates of Penzance

     Here's your crowbar and your centrebit / Your life-preserver — you may want to hit!

   • 1892, Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet":

     He tried to bluster and took down a life-preserver from the wall. I knew my man, however, and I clapped a pistol to his head before he could strike.

Translations

buoyant ring or vest

Afar: please add this translation if you can Akan: please add this translation if you can Albanian: please add this translation if you can Arabic: سُتْرَةُ نَجَاةٍ‎ f (sutratu najātin), سُتْرَةُ النَجَاةِ‎ f (sutratu n-najāti) (vest), طَوْفُ نَجَاةٍ‎ f (ṭawfu najātin), طَوْفُ النَجَاةِ‎ f (ṭawfu n-najāti) (ring) Armenian: please add this translation if you can Assamese: please add this translation if you can Bashkir: please add this translation if you can Bengali: please add this translation if you can Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can Catalan: salvavides m Chinese: Mandarin: 救生浮袋 (jiùshēng fúdài), 救生器 (jiùshēngqì), (ring) 救生圈 (zh) (jiùshēngquān) Czech: please add this translation if you can Dhivehi: please add this translation if you can Dutch: reddingsboei (nl) m or f Estonian: please add this translation if you can Finnish: pelastusrengas (fi) French: (vest) gilet de sauvetage (fr) m, (ring) bouée de sauvetage (fr) f German: (vest) Rettungsweste (de) f, (ring) Rettungsring (de) m, (ring) Rettungsreifen m Greek: σωσίβιο (el) n (sosívio) Hebrew: גלגל הצלה‎ (he) m (galgál hatsalá) Hindi: please add this translation if you can Hungarian: (ring, buoy) mentőöv (hu), (vest, jacket) mentőmellény (hu) Icelandic: björgunarhringur (is) m (ring), björgunarvesti n (vest) Igbo: please add this translation if you can Indonesian: pelampung penolong Italian: salvagente (it) m, ciambella di salvataggio f Japanese: 浮き輪 (ukiwa) Kashmiri: please add this translation if you can Kazakh: please add this translation if you can Korean: please add this translation if you can Latgalian: (ring) gluobšonys rypuļs m Latin: cortex m or f Macedonian: please add this translation if you can Malayalam: please add this translation if you can Norwegian: Bokmål: livbøye m (ring), redningsvest m (vest) Nynorsk: livbøye m or f (ring), redningsvest m (vest) Pashto: please add this translation if you can Persian: please add this translation if you can Portuguese: boia salva-vidas f Punjabi: please add this translation if you can Romanian: colac de salvare (ro) n, vestă de salvare f Russian: (vest) спаса́тельный жиле́т (ru) m (spasátelʹnyj žilét), (ring) спаса́тельный круг (ru) m (spasátelʹnyj krug) Sinhalese: please add this translation if you can Slovene: please add this translation if you can Somali: please add this translation if you can Spanish: salvavidas (es) m Swedish: livboj (sv) c, flytväst (sv) c (vest) Tagalog: salbabida Tamil: please add this translation if you can Tatar: please add this translation if you can Telugu: please add this translation if you can Thai: please add this translation if you can Tigre: please add this translation if you can Turkish: can simidi (tr) Urdu: please add this translation if you can Vietnamese: phao cứu sinh Wolof: please add this translation if you can Yoruba: please add this translation if you can

See also

• life belt
• life jacket
• rubber ring

 

• life preserver on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• life preservers on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Further reading

• “life preserver”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “life preserver”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “life preserver”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
• “life preserver” in the Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.