warship
Množina: warships
(Homonym: worship).
A government ship that is available for waging war; SYN. war vessel, combat ship.
Fighting ship armed and crewed for war. The supremacy of the battleship at the beginning of the 20th century was rivaled during World War I by the development of submarine attack, and was rendered obsolescent in World War II with the advent of long-range air attack. Today the largest and most important surface warships are the aircraft carriers. war-ship.
combat ship · war vessel
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