Battleship

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  • noun. Any one of a class of warships of the largest size, carrying the greatest number of weapons and clad with the heaviest armor.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A ship of war; specifically, a powerful war-ship designed to fight in the line of battle; in recent use, a heavily armored and armed sea-going war-ship intended for the line of battle.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • An armor-plated warship built of steel and heavily armed, generally having over ten thousand tons displacement, and intended to be fit to combat the heaviest enemy ships in line of battle; the most heavily armed and armored class of warship at any given time.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Large capital warship displacing tens of thousands of tons, heavily armoured and armed with big guns. Battleships are now obsolescent, replaced by smaller vessels with guided missiles. Types: dreadnought, pre-dreadnought.
  • noun. Non-functional rocket stage, used for configuration and integration tests.
  • noun. A guessing game played on grid paper, see Battleship (game)
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. large and heavily armoured warship
    • Word Usage
    "Obama gets 3 things thrown at him and his battleship is already sinking! lmao."
    cross-reference
    aircraft carrier  corvette  cruiser  destroyer  dreadnought  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    combat ship  war vessel  warship  
    Hyponym
    Words that are more specific
    dreadnaught  dreadnought  pocket battleship  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    Krone  Riesling  airship  archduchess  arsonist  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    dreadnought  liner  predreadnought  superdreadnought  
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