battleship
pronunciation
How to pronounce battleship in British English:
UK [ˈbætlʃɪp]
How to pronounce battleship in American English:
US [ˈbætlˌʃɪp]
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- Noun:
- large and heavily armoured warship
Word Origin
- battleship (n.)
- 1794, shortened from line-of-battle ship (1705), one large enough to take part in a main attack (formerly one of 74-plus guns); from battle (n.) + ship (n.). Later in U.S. Navy in reference to a class of ships that carried guns of the largest size. The last was decommissioned in 2006. Battleship-gray as a color is attested from 1916. Fighter and bomber airplanes in World War I newspaper articles were sometimes called battleplanes, but it did not catch on.
Example
- 1. " Battleship , " meanwhile , doesn 't hit chinese theaters until next weekend .
- 2. But with fears increasing the government decided to construct a ship of its own , so that financing a second battleship seemed of little value .
- 3. But it was the sinking of the battleship maine in havana harbor that gave hearst his big story -- war .
- 4. He motioned to the memorial , which sits over the remains of the battleship sunk by the japanese in the pearl harbor attack .
- 5. Instead , the ecb has morphed into the euro zone 's ' bad bank , ' taking on enough questionable credits to sink a battleship .