navy
NounOpen English WordNet
Noun (3)navies
- an organization of military vessels belonging to a country and available for sea warfareSynonyms: naval forcesType of military service, armed serviceMembers naval unit, fleet
- a dark shade of blueSynonyms: dark bluenavy blueType of blue, blueness
- the navy of the United States of America; the agency that maintains and trains and equips combat-ready naval forcesSynonyms: United States NavyUS NavyUSNType of agency, federal agencyPart of Department of Defense, Defense DepartmentParts United States Marine Corps, Naval Special Warfare, Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division, United States Naval Research Laboratory, Office of Naval Intelligence, United States Naval Academy, Naval Underwater Warfare Center, Naval Surface Warfare Center
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Translations
Noun sea force
- Spanish
- marina
- French
- marine
- German
- Marine
- Italian
- marina
- Portuguese
- marinha
- Turkish
- donanma
- Russian
- вое́нно-морско́й флот vojénno-morskój flot
- Arabic
- بَحْرِيَّة baḥriyya
- Chinese
- 海军 hǎijūn
- Japanese
- 海軍 kaigun
25 more languages
- Dutch
- marine
- Polish
- marynarka
- Swedish
- marin
- Greek
- ναυτικό naftikó
- Korean
- 해군 haegun
- Indonesian
- angkatan laut
- Vietnamese
- hải quân
- Hungarian
- haditengerészet
- Portuguese (PT)
- marinha
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 海軍 hǎijūn
- Catalan
- marina
- Czech
- námořnictvo
- Danish
- marine
- Esperanto
- mararmeo
- Estonian
- merevägi
- Finnish
- merivoimat
- Georgian
- საზღვაო ძალები sazɣvao ʒalebi
- Hebrew
- חֵיל יָם kheil yam
- Icelandic
- sjóher
- Norwegian
- marine
- Romanian
- marină
- Serbo-Croatian
- mornarica
- Slovenian
- mornarica
- Swahili
- jeshi la wanamaji
- Yiddish
- פֿלאָט flot
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: OF. navie, fr. L. navis ship. See Nave of a church.
1. A fleet of ships; an assemblage of merchantmen, or so many as sail in company. “The navy also of Hiram, that brought gold from Ophir.” 1 kings x. 11.
2. The whole of the war vessels belonging to a nation or ruler, considered collectively; as, the navy of Italy.
3. The officers and men attached to the war vessels of a nation; as, he belongs to the navy.
4. same as navy blue.
Navy bean. see Bean. — Navy yard, a place set apart as a shore station for the use of the navy. It often contains all the mechanical and other appliences for building and equipping war vessels and training their crews.
Having a color of navy blue.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54 · with additions: GCIDE editors