corvette
pronunciation
How to pronounce corvette in British English:
UK [kɔ:ˈvet]
How to pronounce corvette in American English:
US [kɔrˈvet]
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- Noun:
- a highly maneuverable escort warship; smaller than a destroyer
Word Origin
- corvette (n.)
- 1630s, also corvet, from French corvette "small, fast frigate" (15c.), perhaps from Middle Dutch korver "pursuit ship," or Middle Low German korf meaning both a kind of boat and a basket, or from Latin corbita (navis) "slow-sailing ship of burden, grain ship" from corbis "basket" (Gamillscheg is against this). The U.S. sports car was so named September 1952, after the warship, on a suggestion by Myron Scott, employee of Campbell-Ewald, Chevrolet's advertising agency. Italian corvetta, Spanish corbeta are French loan-words.
Example
- 1. And it failed to condemn the north korean sinking of a south korean corvette and the shelling of a south korean island .
- 2. I would buy my daddy a red corvette ( he 's always wanted one ) .
- 3. I thought to myself as I followed the corvette into the humongous driveway of a four-story mansion .
- 4. I saw a gun metal grey corvette pull off the road and into the parking lot I smiled .
- 5. A hardline approach to its neighbour has been the official stance ever since the cheonan , a southern military corvette , was torpedoed in march .