Usually means: Powerful, heavily armored battleship design.
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  1. dreadnought: Merriam-Webster
  2. dreadnought: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dreadnought: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. dreadnought: Collins English Dictionary
  5. dreadnought: Vocabulary.com
  6. Dreadnought, dreadnought: Wordnik
  7. dreadnought: Wiktionary
  8. dreadnought: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. dreadnought: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. dreadnought: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. dreadnought: Dictionary.com
  12. Dreadnought: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Dreadnought (Star Wars), Dreadnought (book), Dreadnought (comics), Dreadnought (disambiguation), Dreadnought (guitar type), Dreadnought (naval wargame), Dreadnought (video game), Dreadnought, Dreadnought: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. dreadnought: Rhymezone
  15. Dreadnought: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  16. dreadnought: FreeDictionary.org
  17. dreadnought: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  18. dreadnought: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. dreadnought: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. Dreadnought: Dictionary.com

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  1. dreadnought: Encyclopedia

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. dreadnought, dreadnought: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. dreadnought: The Folk File
  3. dreadnought: Urban Dictionary

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noun:  (military, nautical, historical) A battleship, especially of the World War I era, in which most of the firepower is concentrated in large guns that are of the same caliber.
noun:  (informal) Any type of warship heavier in armour or armament than a typical battleship.
noun:  (by extension) One that is the largest or the most powerful of its kind.
noun:  (music) A type of acoustic guitar with a very large body and a waist that is less pronounced than on other guitar shapes, producing a deep, bold sound.
noun:  A garment made of thick woollen cloth that can defend against storm and cold.
noun:  The cloth itself; fearnaught.
noun:  One that fears nothing.
noun:  Something that assures against fear.

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