battleship

See also: battle ship

English

A battleship (sense 1).

Etymology

battle +‎ ship; shortened from line-of-battle ship, attested 1794.

Pronunciation

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Noun

battleship (plural battleships)

1. (military, nautical) A large capital warship displacing thousands to tens of thousands of tons, heavily armoured and armed with large-caliber guns; now obsolescent and replaced by smaller vessels with guided missiles.
   1. (science fiction, by extension) A starship of comparable role
2. (military, nautical, archaic) A ship of the line.
3. A non-functional rocket stage, used for configuration and integration tests.
4. A guessing game played on grid paper; see Battleship (game).

Hyponyms

(type of warship):

• dreadnought
• pre-dreadnought
• semi-dreadnought
• super-dreadnought
• treaty battleship

Derived terms

• battleship curve
• battleship gray
• battleship-gray
• battleship-grey
• battleship grey
• battleshippy
• battleship-shaped curve
• fast battleship
• heavy battleship
• land battleship
• light battleship
• pocket battleship
• super battleship

 

Related terms

• battlecruiser

Translations

warship

• Azerbaijani: döyüş gəmisi
• Catalan: cuirassat (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 戰艦／战舰 (zin³ laam⁶)

  Hakka: 戰艦／战舰 (chan-kam)

  Hokkien: 戰艦／战舰 (zh-min-nan) (chiàn-lām)

  Mandarin: 戰艦／战舰 (zh) (zhànjiàn), 戰列艦／战列舰 (zh) (zhànlièjiàn)

• Czech: bitevní loď (cs) f
• Danish: slagskib n
• Dutch: slagschip (nl) n
• Esperanto: batalŝipo
• Estonian: lahingulaev
• Faroese: herskip n, krígsskip n
• Finnish: taistelulaiva (fi)
• French: cuirassé (fr) m
• Georgian: საბრძოლო გემი (sabrʒolo gemi), საბრძოლო ხომალდი (sabrʒolo xomaldi), სახაზო გემი (saxazo gemi), ჯავშნოსანი (ǯavšnosani)
• German: Schlachtschiff (de) n. Schlachtschiff is used for dreadnought battleships, Linienschiff is used for pre-dreadnought battleships.
• Greek: θωρηκτό (el) n (thoriktó)
• Hebrew: אֳנִיַּת מַעֲרָכָה (he) f (oniyat ma'arakha)
• Hungarian: csatahajó (hu)
• Ido: kurasonavo (io)
• Italian: corazzata (it) f, nave corazzata f
• Japanese: 戦艦 (ja) (せんかん, senkan)
• Korean: 전함(戰艦) (ko) (jeonham)
• Malayalam: യുദ്ധക്കപ്പൽ (ml) (yuddhakkappal), പടക്കപ്പൽ (ml) (paṭakkappal)
• Navajo: tsin naaʼeeł bee daʼahijighánígíí
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: slagskip n

  Nynorsk: slagskip n

• Persian: نبردناو (fa) (nabard-nâv)
• Polish: pancernik (pl) m
• Portuguese: couraçado m, encouraçado m
• Russian:

  Age of Sail: лине́йный кора́бль (ru) m (linéjnyj koráblʹ)

  dreadnoughts and later designs: лине́йный кора́бль (ru) m (linéjnyj koráblʹ), линко́р (ru) m (linkór)

  pre-dreadnought designs: бронено́сец (ru) m (bronenósec), эска́дренный бронено́сец (ru) m (eskádrennyj bronenósec)

• Slovak: bitevná loď f
• Slovene: bojna ladja (sl) f
• Spanish: acorazado (es) m
• Swedish: slagskepp (sv) n
• Tagalog: bapor-pandigma
• Turkish: savaş gemisi (tr)
• Volapük: bländanaf, lekomipanaf

non-functional rocket stage

guessing game

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 海戰／海战 (zh) (hǎizhàn)

• Czech: lodě (cs) f pl
• Danish: sænke slagskibe
• Dutch: zeeslag (nl)
• Esperanto: marbatalo
• Finnish: laivanupotus (fi), laivastopeli
• French: bataille navale (fr) f
• German: Schiffe versenken
• Greek: ναυμαχία (el) f (navmachía)
• Hungarian: torpedó (hu)
• Italian: battaglia navale f
• Japanese: 海戦ゲーム (kaisen gēmu)
• Korean: 배틀십 (baeteulsip)
• Polish: okręty, statki (pl)
• Portuguese: batalha naval m
• Russian: морско́й бой (ru) m (morskój boj)
• Swedish: sänka skepp (sv)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• French: ^{(please verify)} cuirassé (fr) m
• Hindi: ^{(please verify)} युद्धपोत (yuddhapot), ^{(please verify)} रणपोत (raṇpot), ^{(please verify)} जंगी जहाज (hi) (jaṅgī jahāj)
• Swedish: ^{(please verify)} slagskepp (sv)
• Telugu: ^{(please verify)} యుద్ధనౌక (yuddhanauka)

See also

• dreadnought
• cruiser
• destroyer
• frigate
• sloop
• corvette
• monitor
• gunboat
• torpedo boat
• aircraft carrier

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “battleship”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.