FLOTILLA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does flotilla mean? 

• FLOTILLA (noun)
  The noun FLOTILLA has 2 senses:

1. a United States Navy fleet consisting of two or more squadrons of small warships

2. a fleet of small craft

  Familiarity information: FLOTILLA used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FLOTILLA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A United States Navy fleet consisting of two or more squadrons of small warships

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

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

fleet (a group of warships organized as a tactical unit)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A fleet of small craft

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

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

fleet (a group of warships organized as a tactical unit)

 Context examples 

Sweeping over the glassy surface was a great flotilla of canoes coming straight for the shore upon which we stood.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)