navy

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In that war our navy will be our first line of defense; and what we do for our navy now will have much to do with what our navy will be able to do for us then Our navy to-day is made up of good ships and capable, courageous, hard-working officers and men.

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  1. noun All of a nation's warships.
  2. noun A nation's entire military organization for sea warfare and defense, including vessels, personnel, and shore establishments.
  3. noun A group of ships; a fleet.
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  • The price England had paid for her navy was a debt of three hundred millions of pounds sterling. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Albert Gallatin, by John Austin Stevens.
  • In that war our navy will be our first line of defense; and what we do for our navy now will have much to do with what our navy will be able to do for us then Our navy to-day is made up of good ships and capable, courageous, hard-working officers and men. —  The U-boat hunters
  • And not until a clear and consistent theory of naval war had been elaborated and made the common property of all the officers of the navy was the attempt made to expand the fleet to a scale thought to be proportionate to the position of Germany among the nations. —  Britain at Bay
  • "In spite of it all, I believe the navy is all right," he said, with savage emphasis. —  The Major
  • A minister of the navy was appointed, and the whale-boat put in commission. —  Alonzo Fitz and Other Stories
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  1. Middle English, from Old French navie, from Latin nāvigia, pl. of nāvigium, ship, from nāvigāre, to sail; see navigate.

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  1. from ME, navie, navye, naveye, navee, from Old French navie, also navei, navey, navoi, navoy, a ship, a fleet, a navy, from Late Latin navia, ships, neuter plural for L. naves, feminine plural of navis, a ship: see nave.
 

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