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GUIDED MISSILE DESTROYER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does guided missile destroyer mean? 

GUIDED MISSILE DESTROYER (noun)
  The noun GUIDED MISSILE DESTROYER has 1 sense:

1. a small fast lightly armored but heavily armed warshipplay

  Familiarity information: GUIDED MISSILE DESTROYER used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


GUIDED MISSILE DESTROYER (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A small fast lightly armored but heavily armed warship

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

destroyer; guided missile destroyer

Hypernyms ("guided missile destroyer" 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 "guided missile destroyer"):

tin can (informal term for a destroyer)

torpedo-boat destroyer (small destroyer that was the forerunner of modern destroyers; designed to destroy torpedo boats)

Instance hyponyms:

USS Cole (a United States destroyer)


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