Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A combat ship.

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  • noun Any ship built or armed for naval combat.

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  • noun a government ship that is available for waging war

Etymologies

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war +‎ ship.

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Examples

  • A U.S. warship is patrolling waters near Somalia to find a Japanese ship that was hijacked by pirates.

    IN ODDER NEWS: Bunting For Cinnamon Twists | Best Week Ever 2007

  • Nelson's Victory, the world's oldest commissioned warship, is indeed in Portsmouth, but it is not, as Hitchens says, "moored as a floating museum."

    Letters to the Editor 2005

  • Nelson's Victory, the world's oldest commissioned warship, is indeed in Portsmouth, but it is not, as Hitchens says, "moored as a floating museum."

    Letters to the Editor 2005

  • In the past, ships could be held in reserve unmanned to be ready in emergency and further ships could be adapted from merchant vessels; today, the warship is too specialized for it to be effective from merchant ship conversion.

    Sea Power in the 20th Century 1976

  • U.N. representatives joined actors Edward James Olmos, who played the commander of the show's title warship, and Mary McDonnell, who starred as President Laura Roslin, his civilian superior.

    NPR Topics: News 2009

  • June 8th, 2009 BRUSSELS - NATO is to launch a new, long-term warship fleet dedicated to fighting piracy off Somalia, a senior US diplomat said Monday.

    Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7 2009

  • With the arrival of the Age of Enlightenment, the warship was a product with a difference, and the technology used was later incorporated into merchant navy vessels.

    Ships, galleons, frigates and corvettes 2008

  • With the arrival of the Age of Enlightenment, the warship was a product with a difference, and the technology used was later incorporated into merchant navy vessels.

    Ships, galleons, frigates and corvettes 2008

  • Pirates are all over these waters and the warship will be a deterrent to any more pirates coming onboard and most importantly perhaps basic communications between the crews still onboard the Maersk Alabama and the U.S. Navy.

    CNN Transcript Apr 9, 2009 2009

  • The warship was a ghost from a bloody past, a death-specter, a haunt.

    The Heirs of Babylon Cook, Glen 1972

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  • I worship warships.

    May 21, 2008