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navy

noun
/ˈneɪvi/US/ˈnæɪvi/

Etymology

From Middle English nave, navye, from Anglo-Norman, Old French navie, from Latin nāvigia < nāvigium, from Latin nāvigō, nāvis (“boat”), from Proto-Indo-European *néh₂us. Compare Ancient Greek ναῦς (naûs, “ship”), Persian ناو (nâv, “boat, warship”), Sanskrit नाव (nāva, “ship”), Old English nōwend (“mariner, sailor”). By surface analysis, Latin nav- + -y. Displaced native Old English sċiphere (literally “ship army”).

  1. derived from *néh₂us✻
  2. derived from nāvigō
  3. derived from nāvigia
  4. derived from navie
  5. inherited from nave

Definitions

  1. A country's entire maritime military force, including ships and personnel.

    • People who get seasick easily shouldn't join the navy.

  2. A governmental department in charge of a country's maritime military force.

  3. Any fleet of maritime vessels, and especially the entire fleet of any particular…

    Any fleet of maritime vessels, and especially the entire fleet of any particular nationality, including vessels that are commercial, military, or both.

  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. A dark blue colour, usually called navy blue.

    2. Having the dark blue colour of navy blue.

      • The cover is as navy as a bruise.
      • The morning shadow on his chin was almost as navy as his heavy-lidded eyes, his cheekbones exquisitely sculptured in his haughty face.

    3. Belonging to the navy

      Belonging to the navy; typical of the navy.

      • Lieutenant Lindquist is navy through and through. I know she doesn't want to get out. Now, I know there's no way you can assign her to a navy ship, but there has to be something the navy can give her to keep her in space.
      • It was not what you would picture as a typical meeting with a naval officer. In fact, it was about as navy as an Abbott and Costello movie.

The neighborhood

Derived

antinavy, internavy, navarch, navyish, navyless, navyspeak, pronavy

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at navy. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at navy. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at navy

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA