battleship
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See also: battle ship
English
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Etymology
[edit]From battle + ship; shortened from line-of-battle ship, attested 1794.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]battleship (plural battleships)
- (military, nautical) A large capital warship displacing thousands to tens of thousands of tons, heavily armoured and armed with large-caliber guns; now obsolescent and replaced by smaller vessels with guided missiles.
- (science fiction, by extension) A starship of comparable role
- (military, nautical, archaic) A ship of the line.
- A non-functional rocket stage, used for configuration and integration tests.
- A guessing game played on grid paper; see Battleship (game).
Hyponyms
[edit](type of warship):
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[edit]Translations
[edit]warship
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non-functional rocket stage
guessing game
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See also
[edit]References
[edit]- Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “battleship”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.