Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A ship that carries a fleet or squadron commander and bears the commander's flag.
- n. The chief one of a related group: the flagship of a newspaper chain; the flagship of a line of reference books.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The ship which bears the flag-officer of a squadron or fleet, and on which his flag is displayed.
Wiktionary
- n. In a maritime fleet, the ship occupied by the fleet's commander (usually an admiral); it denotes this by flying his flag.
- n. The most important one out of a related group.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Naut.) The vessel which carries the commanding officer of a fleet or squadron and flies his distinctive flag or pennant.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the chief one of a related group
- n. the ship that carries the commander of a fleet and flies his flag
Examples
“To what they called their flagship programme for the vulnerable section of the”
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“His flagship is Improve-Education. org (which now has 40 intellectual articles, 5 of them about reading).”
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“Qatar's flagship is Education City, home to seven distinguished American universities.”
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“Of course, Ford's new performance flagship is a bit slower than its predecessor, but it's still chock full of heritage and collectibility like the GT. www.enterbet.com”
“He referred to the flagship system as the “mother hen and chickens” breakthrough.”
“The Education Department's long term flagship, the School Journal, is one exception, with a pioneering essay by David Jenkins on its social attitudes (1939), and a history by P.R. Earle (1954), followed by an article by B.P. Malone, 'The New Zealand School Journal and the imperial ideology' in New Zealand Journal of History (April 1973), and more recent unpublished work by Rebecca McLennan and Michael Reid.”
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“Joe Schildhorn/BFAnyc Brad Goreski MImi Ritzen Crawford for The Wall Street Jouranl Janet Jackson Up Madison Avenue, Alber Elbaz was hosting a bash at the Lanvin flagship store.”
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“31 (Reuters) - Deutsche Lufthansa has seen the rate of decline in German flagship carrier's Frankfurt hub manager Karl-Rudolf Rupprecht said.”
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“The winery’s flagship is the 2005 VIU 1, a blend of 88% Malbec and 12% Cabernet Sauvignon.”
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“Gove should scrap his so -called flagship policy and support and enhance the schools we have.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘flagship’.
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AFET - diplomacy
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POL - elections
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Distinguishing Marks
assay-mark, stamp, seal, cedula, cartouse, cachet, brand, mark, hallmark, armorial device, coat of arms, emblem and 150 more...
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nominative case collection
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Hiroe's Words
facetious, bardic, twatwaffle, cattywampus, splendiferous, zomg, merf, fwaa, fnord, tortify, schwiz, blort and 225 more...
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kewpid's Words
moleskine, araldite, dessicate, cellar door, grotesque, fallacy, vendetta, raindrop, panacea, ethereal, hircus, treppenwitz and 446 more...
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Ptolemy's Gate
Words and phrases from Jonathan Stroud's book, Ptolemy's Gate.
fall afoul, fleet, tamarisk, krait, inkstone, hotted up, down-market, have a truck with, brio, fatalistic, knock-kneed, conserve and 210 more...
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kingrat47's Words
procrustean, devolution, cacophony, hippopotamus, crunch, beware, chortled, sibilant, subtle, undermine, acromegaly, acropolis and 645 more...
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Papageno's Words, Pt. I
hobbledehoy, absquatulate, chthonic, prolix, ululate, internecine, verisimilitude, animadversion, concupiscence, vertiginous, cucullate, lucubrate and 1554 more...
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Three Sheets to the Wind
Common words or phrases of nautical origin that have taken on different or metaphorical meanings. Chained_bear and I tossed a coin over who would make the list. I won (or lost, depending on how you...
scuttlebutt, taken aback, brass monkey, boot camp, clean bill of health, three sheets to t..., the devil to pay, between the devil..., by and large, the whole nine yards, mind your ps and qs, slush fund and 116 more...
Tweets
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frindley "Your flagship orchestra." Eeeerrrrrgh!
(Actually, "Your orchestra" is bad enough.) Aug 3, 2008