NAVAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does naval mean? 

• NAVAL (adjective)
  The adjective NAVAL has 1 sense:

1. connected with or belonging to or used in a navy

  Familiarity information: NAVAL used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NAVAL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Connected with or belonging to or used in a navy

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

naval vessels

Pertainym:

navy (an organization of military vessels belonging to a country and available for sea warfare)

Derivation:

navy (an organization of military vessels belonging to a country and available for sea warfare)

 Context examples 

The Crofts took possession with true naval alertness, and were to be visited.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

An organization of military naval forces.

(Navy, NCI Thesaurus)

The questions treated in it were purely naval.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You may take it from me that naval warfare becomes impossible within the radius of a Bruce-Partington’s operation.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

P. niger is commensal to the human intestinal tract and has been isolated from the human naval and urine of adult women.

(Peptococcus niger, NCI Thesaurus)

With that he flourished off the contents of his little tin pot, as if he had made the voyage, and had passed a first-class examination before the highest naval authorities.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I accompanied the whale-fishers on several expeditions to the North Sea; I voluntarily endured cold, famine, thirst, and want of sleep; I often worked harder than the common sailors during the day and devoted my nights to the study of mathematics, the theory of medicine, and those branches of physical science from which a naval adventurer might derive the greatest practical advantage.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

It did not surprise me, therefore, that we should find the large room in which we supped crowded with naval men, but I remember that what did cause me some astonishment was to observe that all these sailors, who had served under the most varying conditions in all quarters of the globe, from the Baltic to the East Indies, should have been moulded into so uniform a type that they were more like each other than brother is commonly to brother.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He took care, however, that they should be allowed to go to the shops they came out expressly to visit; and it did not delay them long, for Fanny could so little bear to excite impatience, or be waited for, that before the gentlemen, as they stood at the door, could do more than begin upon the last naval regulations, or settle the number of three-deckers now in commission, their companions were ready to proceed.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

This peace will be turning all our rich naval officers ashore.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)