NAVAL UNIT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does naval unit mean? 

• NAVAL UNIT (noun)
  The noun NAVAL UNIT has 1 sense:

1. a military unit that is part of a navy

  Familiarity information: NAVAL UNIT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NAVAL UNIT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A military unit that is part of a navy

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("naval unit" is a kind of...):

force; military force; military group; military unit (a unit that is part of some military service)

Domain category:

armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)

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

division; naval division (a group of ships of similar type)

squadron (a naval unit that is detached from the fleet for a particular task)

Holonyms ("naval unit" is a member of...):

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