navy
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2.0
- noun
- /ˈneɪvi/
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armada
- The navy is crucial for protecting a country's interests at sea.
- navy ships
- enlist in the navy
- navy officers
Really we should have Army, Navy and RAF.
- Really we should have Army, Navy and RAF.
- I mean, I, I took my corpsman, my Navy corpsman, great corpsman too.
- I'm so happy because like the Navy taught me a lot of things.
- And the, the, the Navy guys said they're called SEALS.
- He's the son and the grandson of Navy Admirals.
- Loral contracted with the US Navy to provide radar sets.
- You're a graduate of the Navy Fighter Weapons School.
- We had an Army unit and the Army unit was working with the Navy there.
- The smallest Navy that we've had since World War One.
- He went through BUDS training for Navy Seals like several different times.
- I'm like, you know, that you guys are Navy mutual like you.
- AB we have the Navy Seals with Elon Musk.
- He led a whole Navy thing to entrap gay sailors.
- The Coast Guard and the Navy, they are seamen.
Examples
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Well, I flew with him in the navy and he is a great pilot.
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In the navy, I flew A-6's off carriers.
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My husband was in the Navy and he was gone half the time.
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Really we should have Army, Navy and RAF.
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I'm so happy because like the Navy taught me a lot of things.
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My father's a navy pilot.
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For several years, the aims of the navy were thwarted for three reasons.
Academic text (1999) -
Like Gaspar before him, he joined the navy and was sent to Korea for one year.
Fiction book (1990) -
Loral contracted with the US Navy to provide radar sets.
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A very poor performance for the world's largest navy versus a virtually nonexistent navy.
Fiction book (1991)
Synonyms
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3.4
Military ships and the people who use them to fight at sea
Compounds
- Formal
52
4.4
A member of a top United States Navy unit trained for special sea, air, and land missions
- Formal
19
2.8
A branch of the United States military that uses ships and aircraft to protect the country at sea
- Archaic
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6.0
Leader of the United States Navy department before 1947 in charge of its operations
- Formal
1
6.3
The government leader of the United States Department of the Navy before 1947
- Formal
1
5.9
A part of the United States government that managed the Navy until 1947
A historic navy shipyard in Boston where the warship Constitution is anchored
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Surface Forms
Etymology
The word navy originally meant a group of ships and comes from Latin navis 'ship', so a navy is the branch of the armed forces that fights at sea.