NAVAL FORCES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does naval forces mean? 

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

1. an organization of military vessels belonging to a country and available for sea warfare

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• NAVAL FORCES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An organization of military vessels belonging to a country and available for sea warfare

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

naval forces; navy

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

armed service; military service; service (a force that is a branch of the armed forces)

Meronyms (members of "naval forces"):

naval unit (a military unit that is part of a navy)

fleet (a group of warships organized as a tactical unit)

Domain category:

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

Domain member category:

broadside (the simultaneous firing of all the armament on one side of a warship)

broadside (all of the armament that is fired from one side of a warship)

station ((nautical) the location to which a ship or fleet is assigned for duty)

 Context examples 

An organization of military naval forces.

(Navy, NCI Thesaurus)