armada

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First detained in the Channel from a false report that another armada was about to be sent against our shores, no sooner did it arrive off Dominica, than one of the vessels was captured by the enemy, whom in consequence it was no longer possible to surprise.

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  1. noun A fleet of warships.
  2. noun A large group of moving things: an armada of ants crossing the lawn.

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  • Slower and yet slower went the armada, as though its commanders were suspicious. —  Wonder Stories Quarterly Summer 1932
  • To manage this armada, the command and control vessel, USS Mount Whitney, has been brought over from the Mediterranean. —  Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com
  • And in his astronomical searching, he found Sol With hundreds of ships, each larger than whole Terrestrial spaceports, and traveling faster than the speed of light, the Mirans set out to move in to Solar regions and take over And on Earth there was nothing which would be capable of beating off this incredible armada--until Buck Kendall stumbled upon THE ULTIMATE WEAPON JOHN W. CAMPBELL first started writing in 1930 when his first short story, When the Atoms Failed_, was accepted by a science-fiction magazine. —  The Ultimate Weapon
  • First detained in the Channel from a false report that another armada was about to be sent against our shores, no sooner did it arrive off Dominica, than one of the vessels was captured by the enemy, whom in consequence it was no longer possible to surprise. —  Notable Voyagers From Columbus to Nordenskiold
  • Even the constitution of the armada which is to convey it to its point of disembarkation by no means represents a purely naval problem. —  Experiences of a Dug-out, 1914-1918
 

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  1. Spanish, from Medieval Latin armāta; see army.

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  1. Early modern English also erroneously armado (also sometimes as Italian, armata); from Spanish armada = Provencal Portuguese armada = Italian armata = French armée (later English army, q. v.), literally an armed force, army, navy, from Middle Latin armata, an armed force, an army, properly feminine of Latin armatus, past participle of armare, arm: see arm, v., and also army, which is a doublet.
 

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