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CORVETTE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does corvette mean?
• CORVETTE (noun)
The noun CORVETTE has 1 sense:
1. a highly maneuverable escort warship; smaller than a destroyer
Familiarity information: CORVETTE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A highly maneuverable escort warship; smaller than a destroyer
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("corvette" is a kind of...):
combat ship; war vessel; warship (a government ship that is available for waging war)
Context examples
I have handled a sloop, a corvette, and a frigate, and I have found a great variety of duties in each of them.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Why, if they could but press the company, they would man a corvette with flag officers.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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