battleship
noun
bat·tle·ship
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Definition of battleship
: a warship of the largest and most heavily armed and armored class
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The battleship was attacked by Japanese aircrafts and the Oklahoma capsized after sustaining multiple torpedo strikes. — Ivana Hrynkiw | [email protected], al, "Remains of Pearl Harbor casualty identified as Bessemer man," 5 Sep. 2019 He and his team also located the giant Nazi battleship Bismarck and, more recently, 18 shipwrecks in the Black Sea. — Julie Cohn, BostonGlobe.com, "Finding Amelia Earhart’s plane seemed impossible. Then came a startling clue," 12 Aug. 2019 After the retirement of the four Iowa-class battleships in the early 1990s, the service studied a number of solutions before deciding on the Zumwalts. — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, "After Only 3 Years in Service, the USS Zumwalt’s Mission Is Changing," 17 May 2019 Nebraska Lincoln: The remains of twins who joined the Navy together have been returned to the city for burial, decades after their deaths on a battleship at Pearl Harbor. — USA TODAY, "Smokey Bear, tarantula trek, censoring Adam and Eve: News from around our 50 states," 9 Aug. 2019 The Zumwalts are 610 feet long and displace nearly 16,000 tons—almost as much as a World War I battleship. — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, "The Navy’s Next Warship Will Look a Lot Like the USS Zumwalt," 19 June 2019 And turning that battleship around is unlikely to come out of Washington, D.C. — David Noonan, Scientific American, "How to Stop Prisons from Laying the Groundwork for a Fatal Overdose," 15 July 2019 After completing an internship and residency at the old South Baltimore General Hospital, now MedStar Harbor Hospital, he was assigned to active sea duty serving first on the battleship USS Texas. — Frederick N. Rasmussen, baltimoresun.com, "Dr. Thomas E. Wheeler, retired Randallstown general practitioner and World War II Navy veteran, dies," 27 June 2019 The sub can be moored wherever guests desire, from a reef off St. Lucia to a sunken battleship in the Red Sea, and the interior is styled to their preferences. — Karen Carmichael, National Geographic, "Don’t scuba? Here are 10 other underwater thrills," 7 June 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'battleship.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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battleship
noun
English Language Learners Definition of battleship
: a large ship that has many big guns and is used in fighting wars
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battleship
noun
bat·tle·ship
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Kids Definition of battleship
: a large warship with heavy armor and large guns
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