BATTLESHIP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does battleship mean? 

• BATTLESHIP (noun)
  The noun BATTLESHIP has 1 sense:

1. large and heavily armoured warship

  Familiarity information: BATTLESHIP used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BATTLESHIP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Large and heavily armoured warship

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

battleship; battlewagon

Hypernyms ("battleship" is a kind of...):

combat ship; war vessel; warship (a government ship that is available for waging war)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "battleship"):

dreadnaught; dreadnought (battleship that has big guns all of the same caliber)

pocket battleship (a small battleship built to conform with treaty limitations on tonnage and armament (from 1925 to 1930))

 Context examples 

This speech produced a chorus of protests from the cruiser officers and a hearty agreement from the line-of-battleship men, who seemed to be in the majority in the circle which had gathered round.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I had seen the mechanism of the primitive fighting beast, and I was as strongly impressed as if I had seen the engines of a great battleship or Atlantic liner.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

If he talks of a radiator it is a battleship, of an oil pump a cruiser, and so on.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Can you deny that a seaman before the mast makes more in a fast frigate than a lieutenant can in a battleship?

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There’s as much seamanship and pluck in a good cutter action as in a line-o’-battleship fight, though you may not come by a title nor the thanks of Parliament for it.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I had a share of both last cruise, which comes from changing a line-of-battleship for a frigate.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I make bold to say that the man who can carry these objects out with success has deserved better of the country than the officer of a battleship, tacking from Ushant to the Black Rocks and back again until she builds up a reef with her beef-bones.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)