naval
/ˈneɪv(ə)l
/adjective
Relating to a navy or navies: a naval base a naval officer...
- I would like to study about the naval history between the Japanese and the Royal Navy.
- He is also an avid historian and often conducts tours of the historical naval base.
- The harbour at Suda Bay was the largest in the Mediterranean Sea and an ideal base for naval operations.
Derivatives
navally
- At that time Britain led the world economically, technologically and militarily (or at least navally).
- One member to revolt was Thasos, a rich and navally powerful island which controlled parts of nearby Thrace.
- At that time, England was navally inferior to Holland.
Origin
Late Middle English: from Latin navalis, from navis 'ship'.
Rhymes
- Pythagorean system
- Pythagorean triple
- Pythagorean triplet
- Pythagoric
- Pythagorical
- pythagorically
- Pythagorician
- Pythagoricism
- Pythagorico-Platonic
- Pythagorism
- Pythagorist
- Pythagorize
- pythagorizer
- Pythagorizing
- Pythia
- Pythiad
- Moresco
- More, Sir Thomas
- Moresque
- more's the pity
- more than somewhat
- Moreton Bay
- Moreton Bay bug
- Moreton Bay chestnut
- Moreton Bay fig