BATTLEWAGON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does battlewagon mean? 

• BATTLEWAGON (noun)
  The noun BATTLEWAGON has 1 sense:

1. large and heavily armoured warship

  Familiarity information: BATTLEWAGON used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BATTLEWAGON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Large and heavily armoured warship

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

battleship; battlewagon

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

combat ship; war vessel; warship (a government ship that is available for waging war)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "battlewagon"):

dreadnaught; dreadnought (battleship that has big guns all of the same caliber)

pocket battleship (a small battleship built to conform with treaty limitations on tonnage and armament (from 1925 to 1930))