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man-of-war

man-of-war
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Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • UK Pronunciation
    • UK IPA
    • [man uhv, ov wawr]
    • /mæn ʌv, ɒv wɔr/
    • /mæn əv wɔː(r)/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [man uhv, ov wawr]
    • /mæn ʌv, ɒv wɔr/

Definitions of man-of-war word

  • noun plural man-of-war a warship. 1
  • noun plural man-of-war Portuguese man-of-war. 1
  • noun man-of-war a warship 0
  • noun man-of-war an armed naval vessel; warship 0
See all 4 definitions of man-of-war

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Origin of man-of-war

First appearance:

before 1400
One of the 24% oldest English words
1400-50 in sense “soldier”; late Middle English

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Parts of speech for Man-of-war

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Full grammatical hierarchy of Man-of-war

man-of-war popularity

A pretty common term. Usually people know it’s meaning, but prefer to use a more spread out synonym. About 32% of English native speakers know the meaning and use word.
According to our data most of word are more popular. This word is almost not used. It has a much more popular synonym.

Synonyms for man-of-war

noun man-of-war

  • flagship — a ship carrying the flag officer or the commander of a fleet, squadron, or the like, and displaying the officer's flag.
Just one Synonym for man-of-war

Related words

  • man-of-war fish

    a small, tropical fish, Nomeus gronovii, that lives among the tentacles of the Portuguese man-of-war.

  • bluebottle

    A bluebottle is a large fly with a shiny dark-blue body.

  • galatea

    a sea nymph who was the lover of Acis.

  • hydrozoan

    any freshwater or marine coelenterate of the class Hydrozoa, including free-swimming or attached types, as the hydra, in which one developmental stage, either the polyp or medusa, is absent, and colonial types, as the Portuguese man-of-war, in which both medusa and polyp stages are present in a single colony.

  • portuguese man-of-war

    any of several large, oceanic hydrozoans of the genus Physalia, having a large, bladderlike structure with a saillike crest by which they are buoyed up and from which dangle tentacles with stinging cells.

  • serapis

    Also, Sarapis. a Greco-Egyptian deity combining the attributes of Osiris and Apis, identified in Egypt with the Ptolemies: later worshiped throughout the Greek and Roman empires.
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