Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A person who fears nothing.
- noun Something that assures against fear.
- noun Hence A thick cloth with a long pile, used for warm clothing or for protection against the elements; a garment made of such cloth. Also called
fearnaught .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A fearless person.
- noun Hence: A garment made of very thick cloth, that can defend against storm and cold; also, the cloth itself; fearnaught.
- noun A
dreadnought , in either sense.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Alternative spelling of
dreadnought .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun battleship that has big guns all of the same caliber
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Examples
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Peter, GREAT job but if you†™ re going to include 1701-J, the dreadnaught is a must as well.
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It's the only "dreadnaught" (the prototype of the modern battleship) type of battleship surviving, and is also the only surviving battleship that fought in both WW I and WW II.
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The blunders were failure to build a fleet of heavy 4 engine bombers and choosing to build the super dreadnaught battleships Bismarck and Tirpitz instead of Uboats.
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As an aside, battleship armor used by dreadnaught and super dreadnaught battleships is referred to as all or nothing protection.
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Rising tensions over the South China Sea disturbingly recall the naval race between Britain and Germany during the dreadnaught era that played a key role in triggering World War I.
Eric Margolis: The Road to War in Asia Eric Margolis 2011
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A five-thousand-year-old dreadnaught—bringing with it a full force of Sith and one lone Jedi—has inadvertently catapulted eons from the past into the present.
Archive 2010-01-01 RobB 2010
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Mentally, he was far from Tellus, flitting in his super-dreadnaught through parsec after parsec of vacuous space.
Archive 2010-05-01 Fred Kiesche 2010
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Mentally, he was far from Tellus, flitting in his super-dreadnaught through parsec after parsec of vacuous space.
Archive 2010-06-01 Fred Kiesche 2010
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Mercedes To line this car up on an empty highway and roll on the throttle is to experience a unique, Newtonian effervescence, a momentary microgravity when the 4,800-pound dreadnaught around you disappears and you float in a kind of parabolic apogee of pleasure.
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A five-thousand-year-old dreadnaught—bringing with it a full force of Sith and one lone Jedi—has inadvertently catapulted eons from the past into the present.
Books in the Mail (W/E 01/09/2010) RobB 2010
yarb commented on the word dreadnaught
Citation (in the sense of a type of overcoat) on grego.
July 23, 2008