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
- mercurous
- mercury
- mercury arc
- mercury arc lamp
- mercury arc rectifier
- mercury fulminate
- mercury gilding
- mercury lamp
- mercury pool
- mercury porosimetry
- mercury pump
- mercury sublimate
- mercury sulfide
- mercury sulphide
- mercury-tilt
- mercury tilt switch
- mercury vapor light
- mercury vapor pump
- mercury vapor rectifier
- mercury vapor tube
- mercury vapour lamp
- mercury vapour light
- mercury vapour pump
- mercury vapour rectifier
- mercury vapour tube