Navy

/ˈneɪvi/ · noun

Meaning

(countable) A country's entire maritime military force, including ships and personnel..

Definitions by Sense

1. (countable) A country's entire maritime military force, including ships and personnel.
2. (countable) A governmental department in charge of a country's maritime military force.
3. (archaic, countable) Any fleet of maritime vessels, and especially the entire fleet of any particular nationality, including vessels that are commercial, military, or both.
4. (countable and uncountable) A dark blue colour, usually called navy blue.
5. Having the dark blue colour of navy blue.
6. (military) Belonging to the navy; typical of the navy.

Example Sentences

People who get seasick easily shouldn't join the navy.

The skipper Mr. Cooke had hired at Far Harbor was a God-fearing man with a luke warm interest in his new billet and employer, and had only been prevailed upon to take charge of the yacht after the offer of an emolument equal to half a year's sea pay of an ensign in the navy.

The cover is as navy as a bruise.

The morning shadow on his chin was almost as navy as his heavy-lidded eyes, his cheekbones exquisitely sculptured in his haughty face.

[…] there are chess ships and checker ships and those where acey-deucey is almost the only game, the sailors' own improved version of backgammon. Fliers from the seacoast of Iowa, anxious to be as navy as the rest, are usually the first to pick it up.

Lieutenant Lindquist is navy through and through. I know she doesn't want to get out. Now, I know there's no way you can assign her to a navy ship, but there has to be something the navy can give her to keep her in space.

It was not what you would picture as a typical meeting with a naval officer. In fact, it was about as navy as an Abbott and Costello movie.

He was navy through and through; no-nonsense, humorless, and all spit and polish—every hair in its place, every thought gleaned from the manual compiled by brilliant sea dogs of long ago.

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• navies
• more navy
• most navy

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