Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. All of a nation's warships.
- n. A nation's entire military organization for sea warfare and defense, including vessels, personnel, and shore establishments.
- n. A group of ships; a fleet.
- n. Navy blue.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A ship.
- n. A company of ships; a fleet.
- n. All the ships belonging to a country, collectively; in a wide sense, the ships, their officers and crew and equipment, and the department of the government charged with their management and control. Specifically
- n. The men who man a navy or fleet; the officers and men of the military marine.
- n. An obsolete form of navvy.
Wiktionary
- n. A country's entire sea force, including ships and personnel.
- n. A governmental department in charge of a country's sea force.
- n. A dark blue colour, usually called navy blue.
- adj. Having the dark blue colour of navy blue.
- adj. Belonging to the navy; typical of the navy.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A fleet of ships; an assemblage of merchantmen, or so many as sail in company.
- n. The whole of the war vessels belonging to a nation or ruler, considered collectively.
- n. The officers and men attached to the war vessels of a nation.
- n. same as navy blue.
- adj. Having a color of navy blue.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a dark shade of blue
- n. an organization of military vessels belonging to a country and available for sea warfare
- n. the navy of the United States of America; the agency that maintains and trains and equips combat-ready naval forces
Etymologies
- Middle English, from Old French navie, from Latin nāvigia, pl. of nāvigium, ship, from nāvigāre, to sail; see navigate. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Associated Press/Mexico's Secretary Navy In this image released by Mexico's navy, sailors guard weapons seized after a battle between the navy and drug cartel gunmen following the killing of 72 migrants in San Fernando, eastern Mexico, Aug. 24.”
“On Navy Day July 27, 2008 the Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy Admiral Vladimir Vysotsky spoke of a revival of Russian naval power over the next decade and declared that the navy would add six carrier battle groups to its complement of warships.”
“Right now our navy is the smallest it has been since the beginning of World War 1.”
“But she is clearly bitter about what she calls the navy's "" betrayal. '”
“A predecessor of mine in the office of Chief Justice, the late John R. Cartwright, was fond of saying that the Supreme Court like the navy is a silent service.”
“That is exactly what the men in navy services have always done, and what they did before the war, when those songs were written; what the navy is always doing more than anybody else, because nobody can say that any human being is really at home on the sea.”
“I am not a naval man, but these are not questions for Canada to blink; they should be faced, and they point to this, that for the security of the territorial waters of Canada, a Canadian navy is required, that is, a navy whose primary duty is to defend her waters, although if circumstances permit, it can be employed on any sea for the maintenance of the Empire.”
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“What our army and navy is was splendidly demonstrated when our bluejackets marched aboard their ships before our drawn-up soldiers while Admiral Fletcher transferred the command of Vera Cruz to General Funston.”
“Two men climbed out, both wearing the company coveralls in navy blue — third shift navy blue.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘navy’.
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EU - Eurovoc - international relations
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Blues
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I Got The Blues
Always my favorite color, and it comes in so many shades.
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ChortleGiggleSnort
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Colors
Words for colors, including things so associated with a color that they can be used in reference to a color.
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Really Cool Four-Letter Words
I marvel at the amazing variety of four-letter words in the English language. And that's not even counting really common (to me) words like fuck.
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colleen's words
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chromatica
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Systems of Survival
Words from the book by Jane Jacobs.
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my dictionary
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kingrat47's Words
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Learned words
Words which are highly likely to be found in the work of learned writers.
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Chromonyms
These chromonyms are defined as colors in at least one dictionary (mostly MW3). (Actually there's one fake, for reasons I'll explain someday.) They are all one-word nouns such as "kelly", which can...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
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A Dalliance of Dahlias
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Tulip Names I
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wordrainbow
A big list of color names for use on wordrainbow.com
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Tweets
Looking for tweets for navy.
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