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Definition 2024

See also: battle ship

A battleship.

battleship ‎(plural battleships)

(military) Large capital warship displacing tens of thousands of tons, heavily armoured and armed with big guns. Battleships are now obsolescent, replaced by smaller vessels with guided missiles. Types: dreadnought, pre-dreadnought.
Non-functional rocket stage, used for configuration and integration tests.
A guessing game played on grid paper, see Battleship (game)

Terms derived from battleship

warship

Catalan: cuirassat (ca) m
Chinese:

Mandarin: 戰艦 (zh), 战舰 (zh) ‎(zhànjiàn)

Cantonese: 戰艦, 战舰 ‎(zin³ laam⁶)

Hakka: 戰艦, 战舰 ‎(chan-kam)

Min Nan: 戰艦 (zh-min-nan), 战舰 ‎(chiàn-lām)
Czech: bitevní loď (cs) f
Danish: slagskib n
Dutch: slagschip n
Estonian: lahingulaev
Faroese: herskip n, krígsskip n
Finnish: taistelulaiva (fi)
French: cuirassé (fr) m
German: Schlachtschiff (de) n. Schlachtschiff is used for dreadnought battleships, Linienschiff is used for pre-dreadnought battleships.
Greek: θωρηκτό (el) n ‎(thoriktó)
Hungarian: csatahajó (hu)
Ido: kurasonavo (io)

non-functional rocket stage

guessing game