flotilla

Examples

• All

• So a flotilla of British cruisers was sent out.

  The Great War

• Here, pro-Palestinian Turkish demonstrators welcome a ship back to Istanbul from a Gaza-bound flotilla.

  Academic text (2011)

• To save the human race... ...we have an obligation to stick to this plan... ...which every nation on this flotilla has signed up for.

  2012 (2009)

• "Thousands of brave young men have landed from a flotilla of ships."

  Churchill (2017)

• So we returned to the flotilla richer than before, both in goods and in sentiment.

  Fiction book (1991)

• Althea was one of seven vessels in a flotilla, each powered by a recycled engine.

  Academic text (2009)

• At midnight, they're launching this huge display from a flotilla of barges on the Thames.

  Shanghai Knights (2003)

• Dwarfed by the hulls, a flotilla of smaller fishing craft, returning from night fishing, accidentally witnesses this event.

  Fiction book (1992)

• We'd already passed a flotilla of scout rafts all tethered together in a large eddy, taking flycasting lessons.

  Fiction book (1994)

• Every night, soon after dark, a small flotilla of speedboats leaves the harbor without lights.

Synonyms

F

fleet

vsflotilla

384 2.5

A group of vehicles like cars or buses that a company owns

is a smaller unit of similar craft operating together

C

convoy

vsflotilla

125 4.1

A group of vehicles like trucks or ships traveling together for safety

is used more generally for units operating together rather than for protection

S

squadron

vsflotilla

• Specialized

8 6.3

A group of navy ships sent from the fleet for a mission

is a general group operating together rather than a mission detachment

F

flot

vsflotilla

• Archaic

9.9

A small group of ships sailing together

is the modern neutral term instead of the older word

How Big

armada

23 7.2

fleet

384 2.5

flotilla

14 7.3

squadron

• Specialized

114 5.5

Surface Forms

Etymology