battleship

Etymology

 * shortened from line-of-battle ship, attested 1794.

Noun

 * 1)  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.
 * 2)  A starship of comparable role
 * 3)  A ship of the line.
 * 4) A non-functional rocket stage, used for configuration and integration tests.
 * 5) A guessing game played on grid paper; see.

Translations

 * Azerbaijani: döyüş gəmisi
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 戰艦
 * Hakka: 戰艦
 * Hokkien:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish: slagskib
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: batalŝipo
 * Estonian: lahingulaev
 * Faroese: herskip, krígsskip
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: საბრძოლო გემი, საბრძოლო ხომალდი, სახაზო გემი, ჯავშნოსანი
 * German: . Schlachtschiff is used for dreadnought battleships, Linienschiff is used for pre-dreadnought battleships.
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido:
 * Italian:, nave corazzata
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Malayalam: ,
 * Navajo: tsin naaʼeeł bee daʼahijighánígíí
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: slagskip
 * Nynorsk: slagskip
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: couraçado, encouraçado
 * Russian:
 * Age of Sail:
 * dreadnoughts and later designs: ,
 * pre-dreadnought designs: ,
 * Slovak: bitevná loď
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: bapor-pandigma
 * Turkish:
 * Volapük: bländanaf, lekomipanaf


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: sænke slagskibe
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: marbatalo
 * Finnish:, laivastopeli
 * French:
 * German: Schiffe versenken
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian: battaglia navale
 * Japanese: 海戦ゲーム
 * Korean: 배틀십
 * Polish: okręty,
 * Portuguese: batalha naval
 * Russian:
 * Swedish:


 * French:
 * Hindi:, ,
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: