battleship

See also: battle ship

English

A battleship.

Etymology

battle +‎ ship; shortened from line-of-battle ship, attested 1794.

Noun

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)

Derived terms

Terms derived from battleship

battleshippy
fast battleship
heavy battleship

light battleship
pocket battleship
super battleship

Related terms

battlecruiser

Translations

warship

Catalan: cuirassat (ca) m
Chinese:
Cantonese: 戰艦, 战舰 (zin³ laam⁶)

Hakka: 戰艦, 战舰 (chan-kam)

Mandarin: 戰艦 (zh), 戰列艦 (zh), 战舰 (zh) (zhànjiàn), 战列舰 (zh) (zhànlièjiàn)

Min Nan: 戰艦 (zh-min-nan), 战舰 (chiàn-lām)
Czech: bitevní loď (cs) f
Danish: slagskib n
Dutch: slagschip (nl) n
Estonian: lahingulaev
Faroese: herskip n, krígsskip n
Finnish: taistelulaiva (fi)
French: cuirassé (fr) m
Georgian: საბრძოლო გემი (sabrʒolo gemi), საბრძოლო ხომალდი (sabrʒolo xomaldi), სახაზო გემი (saxazo gemi), ჯავშნოსანი (ǯavšnosani)
German: Schlachtschiff (de) n. Schlachtschiff is used for dreadnought battleships, Linienschiff is used for pre-dreadnought battleships.
Greek: θωρηκτό (el) n (thoriktó)
Hebrew: אֳנִיַּת מַעֲרָכָה‎‎ (he) f (oniyat ma'arakha)
Hungarian: csatahajó (hu)
Ido: kurasonavo (io)

Italian: corazzata (it) f, nave corazzata f
Japanese: 戦艦 (ja) (せんかん, senkan)
Navajo: tsin naaʼeeł bee daʼahijighánígíí
Norwegian:
Bokmål: slagskip n

Nynorsk: slagskip n
Persian: نبردناو‎‎ (fa) (nabard-nâv)
Polish: pancernik (pl)
Portuguese: couraçado m, encouraçado m
Russian:
Age of Sail: лине́йный кора́бль (ru) m (linéjnyj koráblʹ)

dreadnoughts and later designs: лине́йный кора́бль (ru) m (linéjnyj koráblʹ), линко́р (ru) m (linkór)

pre-dreadnought designs: бронено́сец (ru) m (bronenósec), эска́дренный бронено́сец (ru) m (eskádrennyj bronenósec)
Slovak: bitevná loď f
Spanish: acorazado (es) m
Swedish: slagskepp (sv) n
Tagalog: bapor-pandigma
Turkish: savaş gemisi (tr)
Volapük: bländanaf, lekomipanaf

non-functional rocket stage

guessing game

Chinese:
Mandarin: 海戰 (zh), 海战 (zh) (hǎizhàn)
Czech: lodě f pl
Danish: sænke slagskibe
Dutch: zeeslag (nl)
Esperanto: marbatalo
Finnish: laivastopeli, laivanupotus (fi)
French: bataille navale (fr) f

German: Schiffe versenken
Greek: ναυμαχία (el) f (navmachía)
Japanese: 海戦ゲーム (kaisen gēmu)
Korean: 배틀십 (baeteulsip)
Polish: okręty
Portuguese: batalha naval m
Russian: морско́й бой (ru) m (morskój boj)
Swedish: sänka skepp (sv)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Translations to be checked

French: ^{(please verify)} cuirassé m
Hindi: ^{(please verify)} युद्धपोत (yud'dhapōta), ^{(please verify)} रणपोत (raṇapōta), ^{(please verify)} जंगी जहाज (jaṅgī jahāja)

Swedish: ^{(please verify)} slagskepp
Telugu: ^{(please verify)} యుద్ధనౌక (yuddhanauka)

References

“battleship” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2018.

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