battleship

A battleship.

English

Noun

battleship (plural battleships)

1. (military) 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.
2. Non-functional rocket stage, used for configuration and integration tests.
3. A guessing game played on grid paper, see Battleship (game)

Derived terms

• battleship gray, battleship grey
• super battleship
• pocket battleship
• light battleship
• heavy battleship
• fast battleship

Related terms

• battlecruiser

See also

• dreadnought
• cruiser
• destroyer
• frigate
• sloop
• corvette
• monitor
• gunboat
• aircraft carrier

Translations

warship

Catalan: cuirassat (ca) m. Czech: bitevní loď (cs) f. Danish: slagskib (da) Dutch: oorlogsschip (nl) Finnish: taistelulaiva (fi) French: cuirassé (fr) m. German: Schlachtschiff (de) n.. Schlachtschiff is used for dreadnought battleships, Linienschiff is used for pre-dreadnought battleships. Greek: θωρηκτό (el) (thoriktó) n.

Hungarian: csatahajó (hu) Italian: corazzata (it) f., nave corazzata (it) f. Japanese: 戦艦 (ja) (せんかん, senkan) Navajo: tsin naaʼeeł bee daʼahijighánígíí Polish: pancernik (pl) Russian: линейный корабль (ru) (linéjnyj korábl’) m., линкор (ru) (linkór) m. Spanish: acorazado (es) m. Volapük: bländanaf (vo), lekomipanaf (vo)

non-functional rocket stage

guessing game

Dutch: zeeslag (nl) Finnish: laivastopeli (fi), laivanupotus (fi) French: bataille navale (fr) f.

German: Schiffe versenken (de) Greek: ναυμαχία (el) (navmachía) f. Polish: okręty (pl)

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Mandarin: trad. 戰艦, simpl. 战舰 (zhànjiàn) French: cuirassé m. Hindi: युद्धपोत (yud'dhapōta), रणपोत (raṇapōta), जंगी जहाज (jaṅgī jahāja)

Swedish: slagskepp Telugu: యుద్ధనౌక (yuddhanauka)