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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A combat ship. Also called man-of-war.

Wiktionary

  1. n. Any ship built or armed for naval combat.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a government ship that is available for waging war

Etymologies

  1. war +‎ ship. (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “A U.S. warship is patrolling waters near Somalia to find a Japanese ship that was hijacked by pirates.”

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  • “Nelson's Victory, the world's oldest commissioned warship, is indeed in Portsmouth, but it is not, as Hitchens says, "moored as a floating museum.”

    Letters to the Editor

  • “In the past, ships could be held in reserve unmanned to be ready in emergency and further ships could be adapted from merchant vessels; today, the warship is too specialized for it to be effective from merchant ship conversion.”

    Sea Power in the 20th Century

  • “U.N. representatives joined actors Edward James Olmos, who played the commander of the show's title warship, and Mary McDonnell, who starred as President Laura Roslin, his civilian superior.”

    NPR Topics: News

  • “June 8th, 2009 BRUSSELS - NATO is to launch a new, long-term warship fleet dedicated to fighting piracy off Somalia, a senior US diplomat said Monday.”

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  • “With the arrival of the Age of Enlightenment, the warship was a product with a difference, and the technology used was later incorporated into merchant navy vessels.”

    Ships, galleons, frigates and corvettes

  • “Pirates are all over these waters and the warship will be a deterrent to any more pirates coming onboard and most importantly perhaps basic communications between the crews still onboard the Maersk Alabama and the U.S. Navy.”

    CNN Transcript Apr 9, 2009

  • “The warship was a ghost from a bloody past, a death-specter, a haunt.”

    The Heirs of Babylon

  • “The captain of a warship is the personal representative of the king of the nation whose flag he flies.”

    Hawaii

  • “In another part of the warship were the big projectiles, some arranged to be fired as solid shots, and others with a bursting charge.”

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  • yarb I worship warships. May 21, 2008

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