battleship

See also: battle ship

English

A battleship.

Etymology

battle +‎ ship; shortened from line-of-battle ship, attested 1794.

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 curve
• battleship gray
• battleship grey
• battleshippy
• fast battleship
• heavy battleship
• light battleship
• pocket battleship
• super battleship

 

Related terms

• battlecruiser

Translations

warship

• Azerbaijani: döyüş gəmisi
• Catalan: cuirassat (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 戰艦／战舰 (zin³ laam⁶), 战舰 (zin³ laam⁶)

  Hakka: 戰艦／战舰, 战舰 (chan-kam)

  Mandarin: 戰艦／战舰 (zh) (zhànjiàn), 戰列艦／战列舰 (zh) (zhànlièjiàn), 战舰 (zh) (zhànjiàn), 战列舰 (zh) (zhànlièjiàn)

  Min Nan: 戰艦／战舰 (zh-min-nan), 战舰 (chiàn-lām)

• Czech: bitevní loď (cs) f
• Danish: slagskib n
• Dutch: slagschip (nl) n
• Esperanto: batalŝipo
• Estonian: lahingulaev
• Faroese: herskip n, krígsskip n
• Finnish: taistelulaiva (fi)
• French: cuirassé (fr) m
• Georgian: საბრძოლო გემი (sabrʒolo gemi), საბრძოლო ხომალდი (sabrʒolo xomaldi), სახაზო გემი (saxazo gemi), ჯავშნოსანი (ǯavšnosani)
• German: Schlachtschiff (de) n. Schlachtschiff is used for dreadnought battleships, Linienschiff is used for pre-dreadnought battleships.
• Greek: θωρηκτό (el) n (thoriktó)
• Hebrew: אֳנִיַּת מַעֲרָכָה (he) f (oniyat ma'arakha)
• Hungarian: csatahajó (hu)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Ido: kurasonavo (io)
• Italian: corazzata (it) f, nave corazzata f
• Japanese: 戦艦 (ja) (せんかん, senkan)
• Navajo: tsin naaʼeeł bee daʼahijighánígíí
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: slagskip n

  Nynorsk: slagskip n

• Persian: نبردناو (fa) (nabard-nâv)
• Polish: pancernik (pl) m
• Portuguese: couraçado m, encouraçado m
• Russian:

  Age of Sail: лине́йный кора́бль (ru) m (linéjnyj koráblʹ)

  dreadnoughts and later designs: лине́йный кора́бль (ru) m (linéjnyj koráblʹ), линко́р (ru) m (linkór)

  pre-dreadnought designs: бронено́сец (ru) m (bronenósec), эска́дренный бронено́сец (ru) m (eskádrennyj bronenósec)

• Slovak: bitevná loď f
• Slovene: bojna ladja (sl) f
• Spanish: acorazado (es) m
• Swedish: slagskepp (sv) n
• Tagalog: bapor-pandigma
• Turkish: savaş gemisi (tr)
• Volapük: bländanaf, lekomipanaf

non-functional rocket stage

• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

guessing game

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 海戰／海战 (zh) (hǎizhàn), 海战 (zh) (hǎizhàn)

• Czech: lodě (cs) f pl
• Danish: sænke slagskibe
• Dutch: zeeslag (nl)
• Esperanto: marbatalo
• Finnish: laivastopeli, laivanupotus (fi)
• French: bataille navale (fr) f
• German: Schiffe versenken
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Greek: ναυμαχία (el) f (navmachía)
• Hungarian: torpedó (hu)
• Japanese: 海戦ゲーム (kaisen gēmu)
• Korean: 배틀십 (baeteulsip)
• Polish: okręty
• Portuguese: batalha naval m
• Russian: морско́й бой (ru) m (morskój boj)
• Swedish: sänka skepp (sv)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• French: ^{(please verify)} cuirassé (fr) m
• Hindi: ^{(please verify)} युद्धपोत (yuddhapot), ^{(please verify)} रणपोत (raṇpot), ^{(please verify)} जंगी जहाज (hi) (jaṅgī jahāj)
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• Swedish: ^{(please verify)} slagskepp (sv)
• Telugu: ^{(please verify)} యుద్ధనౌక (yuddhanauka)

See also

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

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “battleship”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.