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Synonyms for battleship

Grammar : Noun
Spell : bat-l-ship
Phonetic Transcription : ˈbæt lˌʃɪp


Définition of battleship

Origin :
  • 1794, shortened from line-of-battle ship (1705), one large enough to take part in a main attack (formerly one of 74-plus guns); from battle (n.) + ship (n.). Later in U.S. Navy in reference to a class of ships that carried guns of the largest size. The last was decommissioned in 2006. Battleship-gray as a color is attested from 1916. Fighter and bomber airplanes in World War I newspaper articles were sometimes called battleplanes, but it did not catch on.
  • noun warship
Example sentences :
  • It was so huge and vast that even the crew of the battleship burst into a cheer.
  • Extract from : « The Cruise of the Dry Dock » by T. S. Stribling
  • It was the solemn note of a battleship destroyed by its own magazines.
  • Extract from : « The Cruise of the Dry Dock » by T. S. Stribling
  • A view of the battleship as it will look in the water is shown in Fig. 31.
  • Extract from : « Boys' Book of Model Boats » by Raymond Francis Yates
  • A battleship should be at least twice as long as a torpedo-boat destroyer.
  • Extract from : « Boys' Book of Model Boats » by Raymond Francis Yates
  • France had accepted the verdict; but now a second battleship was gone.
  • Extract from : « The Destroyer » by Burton Egbert Stevenson
  • You are thinking, 'Here is the miscreant, the scoundrel, who destroyed our battleship!'
  • Extract from : « The Destroyer » by Burton Egbert Stevenson
  • A battleship was just leaving the Lower Bay, smoke pouring from every funnel.
  • Extract from : « The Crimson Tide » by Robert W. Chambers
  • The launch reached the battleship, was hoisted and stowed on board.
  • Extract from : « The Red Hand of Ulster » by George A. Birmingham
  • I am attached to the battleship 'Hudson,' now lying in this harbor.
  • Extract from : « Dave Darrin on Mediterranean Service » by H. Irving Hancock
  • This planet seems to have no possible motive or use for a battleship.
  • Extract from : « The Misplaced Battleship » by Harry Harrison (AKA Henry Maxwell Dempsey)

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