aircraft carrier

English

An aircraft carrier.

Pronunciation

• (General American) enPR: IPA^(key): /ˈɛːɹ.kɹæft kʰɛɹːiɚ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

aircraft carrier (plural aircraft carriers)

2. A warship designed to carry aircraft, serving as a seagoing air base, with a deck on which aircraft can be launched and landed.
   • 2025 April 10, Brad Lendon, “‘Frankenjet’ stealth fighter made from two wrecked warplanes joins US Air Force fleet”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     The US Air Force has 383 F-35As in its fleet, according to the International Institute for Strategic Studies.
     The F-35A is one of the three versions of the US military’s stealth fighter. The Marine Corps flies the F-35B – a short take-off, vertical landing aircraft – and the Navy flies the F-35C, designed for aircraft carrier operations.

Synonyms

• bird farm (slang)
• flattop

Hyponyms

• helicopter carrier
• escort carrier
• aviation cruiser
• supercarrier
• fleet carrier

Derived terms

• commando carrier
• escort carrier
• fleet carrier
• harrier carrier
• light carrier
• lightning carrier
• merchant aircraft carrier
• supercarrier

Translations

warship for launching aircraft

• Afrikaans: vliegdekskip
• Albanian: aeroplanmbajtëse (sq) f
• Arabic: حَمَلَةُ طَائِرَات f (ḥamalatu ṭāʔirāt)
• Armenian: ավիակիր (hy) (aviakir)
• Azerbaijani: aviadaşıyıcı
• Basque: hegazkin-ontzi
• Belarusian: авіяно́сец m (avijanósjec)
• Bengali: যুদ্ধবিমান পরিবাহক (juddhobiman poribahok)
• Bulgarian: самолетоноса́ч (bg) m (samoletonosáč)
• Catalan: portaavions (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Hokkien: please add this translation if you can

  Mandarin: 航空母艦 / 航空母舰 (zh) (hángkōng mǔjiàn), (abbreviation) 航母 (zh) (hángmǔ)

• Czech: letadlová loď (cs) f
• Danish: hangarskib n
• Dutch: vliegdekschip (nl) n
• Esperanto: aviadila ŝipo, aviadilporta, aviporta ŝipo, aviadilŝipo
• Estonian: lennukikandja
• Faroese: flogberi m
• Finnish: lentotukialus (fi)
• French: porte-avions (fr) m
• Galician: porta-avións m
• Georgian: ავიამზიდი (aviamzidi), ავიამზიდი გემი (aviamzidi gemi), ავიამზიდი ხომალდი (aviamzidi xomaldi)
• German: Flugzeugträger (de) m
• Greek: αεροπλανοφόρο (el) n (aeroplanofóro)
• Hebrew: נוֹשֵׂאת מְטוֹסִים (he) f (noset metosim)
• Hindi: विमान वाहक पोत (vimān vāhak pot)
• Hungarian: repülőgép-hordozó (hu), repülőgép-anyahajó (hu) (colloquial)
• Icelandic: lugmóðurskip n
• Indonesian: kapal induk (id)
• Irish: iompróir aerárthaí m
• Italian: portaerei (it) f, portaeromobili f
• Japanese: 航空母艦 (ja) (こうくうぼかん, kōkūbokan), (abbreviation) 空母 (ja) (くうぼ, kūbo)
• Kazakh: ұшақ тасығыш (ūşaq tasyğyş)
• Korean: 항공모함(航空母艦) (ko) (hanggongmoham), (abbreviation) 항모(航母) (hangmo)
• Latin: navis aëroplanigera f
• Latvian: aviācijas bāzeskuģis m
• Lithuanian: lėktuvnešis m
• Macedonian: носач на авио́ни m (nosač na avióni)
• Malay: kapal pengangkut pesawat, kapal induk pesawat udara
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: нисэх онгоц тээвэрлэгч (nisex ongoc teeverlegč), нисгэлийн суурь онгоц (nisgeliin suurʹ ongoc) (China)

  Mongolian script: ᠨᠢᠰᠬᠦ
  ᠣᠩᠭᠤᠴᠠ
  ᠲᠡᠭᠡᠭᠡᠪᠦᠷᠢᠯᠡᠭᠴᠢ (niskü ongɣuča tegegebürileɣči), ᠨᠢᠰᠬᠡᠯ ᠦᠨ
  ᠰᠠᠭᠤᠷᠢ
  ᠣᠩᠭᠤᠴᠠ (niskel-ün saɣuri ongɣuča)

• Navajo: tsin naaʼeeł chidí naatʼaʼí bee nágéhé
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hangarskip n

  Nynorsk: hangarskip n

• Pali: ākāsayānanāvā f
• Persian: ناو هواپیمابر (fa) (nâv-e havâpeymâbar)
• Polish: lotniskowiec (pl) m, awiomatka f
• Portuguese: porta-aviões (pt) m
• Romanian: portavion (ro) n
• Russian: авиано́сец (ru) m (avianósec), авиама́тка (ru) f (aviamátka)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: носач авиона m (Serbia), носач зракоплова m (Croatia)

  Latin: nosač aviona m (Serbia), nosač zrakoplova m (Croatia)

• Slovak: lietadlová loď f
• Slovene: letalonosilka f
• Spanish: portaaviones (es) m
• Swedish: hangarfartyg (sv) n
• Tamil: வானூர்தி தாங்கிக் கப்பல் (vāṉūrti tāṅkik kappal)
• Thai: เรือบรรทุกเครื่องบิน (rʉʉa-ban-túk-krʉ̂ʉang-bin), เรือบรรทุกอากาศยาน (rʉʉa-ban-túk-aa-gàat-sà-yaan)
• Turkish: uçak gemisi (tr)
• Ukrainian: авіано́сець (uk) m (avianósecʹ)
• Vietnamese: tàu sân bay (vi); hàng không mẫu hạm (vi) (obsolete)

See also

• air carrier
• seaplane tender