FLAGSHIP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does flagship mean? 

• FLAGSHIP (noun)
  The noun FLAGSHIP has 2 senses:

1. the chief one of a related group

2. the ship that carries the commander of a fleet and flies his flag

  Familiarity information: FLAGSHIP used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FLAGSHIP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The chief one of a related group

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Context example:

it is their flagship newspaper

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

thing (an artifact)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The ship that carries the commander of a fleet and flies his flag

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

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

ship (a vessel that carries passengers or freight)

 Context examples 

The flagship demonstration was a two-chip teleportation experiment, whereby the individual quantum state of a particle is transmitted across the two chips after a quantum measurement is performed.

(Scientists ‘Teleport’ Data between Chips for First Time, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)