NAVAL ACADEMY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does naval academy mean? 

• NAVAL ACADEMY (noun)
  The noun NAVAL ACADEMY has 1 sense:

1. an academy for training naval officers

  Familiarity information: NAVAL ACADEMY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NAVAL ACADEMY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An academy for training naval officers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("naval academy" is a kind of...):

academy (a school for special training)

Domain category:

armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)

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

United States Naval Academy; US Naval Academy (a school for training men and women to become officers in the United States Navy)