Usually means: Large, armored warship with guns.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. battleship: Merriam-Webster
  2. battleship: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. battleship: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. battleship: Collins English Dictionary
  5. battleship: Vocabulary.com
  6. Battleship, battleship: Wordnik
  7. battleship: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. battleship: Wiktionary
  9. battleship: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. battleship: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. battleship: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. battleship: Dictionary.com
  13. battleship: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Battleship (Antarctica), Battleship (disambiguation), Battleship (film), Battleship (game), Battleship (horse), Battleship (puzzle), Battleship (rocketry), Battleship (song), Battleship (video game), Battleship: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. battleship: Rhymezone
  16. battleship: FreeDictionary.org
  17. battleship: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. battleship: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. battleship: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. battleship: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. battleship: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Battleship: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (military, nautical) A large capital warship displacing thousands to tens of thousands of tons, heavily armoured and armed with large-caliber guns; now obsolescent and replaced by smaller vessels with guided missiles.
noun:  (science fiction, by extension) A starship of comparable role
noun:  (military, nautical, archaic) A ship of the line.
noun:  A non-functional rocket stage, used for configuration and integration tests.
noun:  A guessing game played on grid paper; see Battleship (game).

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