Definition of naval in English:
naval
adjective ˈneɪv(ə)lˈneɪvəl
Relating to a navy or navies.
Example sentencesExamples
- A new expanded yard at Portsmouth will be the most modern naval shipbuilding facility in the world.
- He is also an avid historian and often conducts tours of the historical naval base.
- One former naval officer said the case represented a sea-change in navy management style.
- It took eight hours to load three miles of pipe, using four officers and 40 naval ratings.
- Owned by Mexico, the islands are uninhabited except for a naval base on Socorro.
- The island became very influenced by America and was a base to America's huge Pacific naval fleet.
- It lies on an American naval base and the only viewing point is 100 metres away.
- We didn't venture as far as the naval base, but found a beautiful spot to camp right by the edge of the Baltic Sea.
- It was handed down through the generations of the family of one of Cook's fellow naval officers.
- She and her husband have moved south to the Black Sea - away from the naval base that was their home.
- I would like to study about the naval history between the Japanese and the Royal Navy.
- The harbour at Suda Bay was the largest in the Mediterranean Sea and an ideal base for naval operations.
- It was this maritime vulnerability that made naval politics the most important of all politics.
- The Royal Navy has once again reiterated that there were no naval vessels or submarines in the area at the time.
- Only its vital strategic importance as a naval base cushioned it from further reprisals.
- In a party scene, she toasts a young woman, newly betrothed to a naval officer.
- The fleet was to surrender, but it was scuttled before it reached the naval base at Scapa Flow.
- As a junior naval officer it seems you work very hard for comparatively little salary.
- The ships are tied up in Portsmouth naval base, with the numbers on board reduced to single figures.
- It was believed to be the largest gathering of naval vessels in Liverpool for decades.
Derivatives
adverb
At that time, England was navally inferior to Holland.
Example sentencesExamples
- One member to revolt was Thasos, a rich and navally powerful island which controlled parts of nearby Thrace.
- At that time Britain led the world economically, technologically and militarily (or at least navally).
- As a counterpoint to these navally oriented papers, he considers the complication for defence planning introduced by the steadily developing capability of air forces.
- Much of his church is navally themed.
Origin
Late Middle English: from Latin navalis, from navis 'ship'.