NAVY

Pronunciation (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does Navy mean? 

• NAVY (noun)
  The noun NAVY has 3 senses:

1. an organization of military vessels belonging to a country and available for sea warfare
2. a dark shade of blue
3. the navy of the United States of America; the agency that maintains and trains and equips combat-ready naval forces

  Familiarity information: NAVY used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NAVY (noun)

Meaning:

An organization of military vessels belonging to a country and available for sea warfare

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

naval forces; navy

Hypernyms ("navy" is a kind of...):

armed service; military service; service (a force that is a branch of the armed forces)

Meronyms (members of "navy"):

naval unit (a military unit that is part of a navy)

fleet (a group of warships organized as a tactical unit)

Domain category:

armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)

Domain member category:

broadside (the simultaneous firing of all the armament on one side of a warship)

broadside (all of the armament that is fired from one side of a warship)

station ((nautical) the location to which a ship or fleet is assigned for duty)

Meaning:

A dark shade of blue

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

dark blue; navy blue; navy

Hypernyms ("navy" is a kind of...):

blue; blueness (blue color or pigment; resembling the color of the clear sky in the daytime)

Meaning:

The navy of the United States of America; the agency that maintains and trains and equips combat-ready naval forces

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

United States Navy; US Navy; USN; Navy

Hypernyms ("Navy" is a kind of...):

agency; authority; bureau; federal agency; government agency; office (an administrative unit of government)

Meronyms (parts of "Navy"):

Marine Corps; Marines; United States Marine Corps; United States Marines; US Marine Corps; USMC (an amphibious division of the United States Navy)

Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division; NAWCWPNS (the principal agency of the United States Navy for research and development for air warfare and missile weapon systems)

Naval Special Warfare; NSW (the agency that provides units to conduct unconventional and counter-guerilla warfare)

Naval Surface Warfare Center; NSWC (the agency that provides scientific and engineering and technical support for all aspects of surface warfare)

Naval Underwater Warfare Center; NUWC (the agency that provides scientific and engineering and technical support for submarine and undersea warfare systems)

United States Naval Academy; US Naval Academy (a school for training men and women to become officers in the United States Navy)

Office of Naval Intelligence; ONI (the military intelligence agency that provides for the intelligence and counterintelligence and investigative and security requirements of the United States Navy)

Naval Research Laboratory; NRL (the United States Navy's defense laboratory that conducts basic and applied research for the Navy in a variety of scientific and technical disciplines)

Holonyms ("Navy" is a part of...):

Defense; Defense Department; Department of Defense; DoD; United States Department of Defense (the federal department responsible for safeguarding national security of the United States; created in 1947)