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Vaihtoehtoiset kirjoitusmuodot

Ääntäminen

  • ÄäntäminenSouthern England
  • ÄäntäminenGA
  • RP:
    • IPA: /ˌmæn.ə(v)ˈwɔː/
  • GA:
    • IPA: /ˌmæn.ə(v)ˈwoɹ/
    • IPA: /ˈmæn-/
  • NZ:
    • IPA: /ˌmɛn.ɘ(v)ˈwoː/
KieliKäännökset
espanjahombre de guerra, buque de guerra
italianave da guerra
japani戦艦 (senkan), 軍艦 (gunkan)
portugaliguerreiro, navio de guerra
ranskahomme de guerre, navire de guerre
saksaKriegsschiff
suomisotalaiva
venäjäвое́нный (vojénnyi), военнослу́жащий (vojennoslúžaštši), вое́нный кора́бль (vojénnyi korábl)

Määritelmät

Substantiivi

  1. (military, archaic, except, humorous) A man whose occupation is fighting in wars; a soldier, a warrior.
  2. (military, nautical, chiefly historical) A powerful armed naval vessel, primarily one armed with cannon and propelled by sails; a warship.
  3. (obsolete, rare) In full man-of-war's-man: a sailor serving on board an armed naval vessel.
  4. Senses relating to animals.
  5. Ellipsis of man-of-war bird or man-of-war hawk (“any of a number of seabirds, especially one which attacks other seabirds to take their food”).
  6. (specifically, archaic) A frigatebird (family Fregatidae), especially the magnificent frigatebird (Fregata magnificens).
  7. (specifically, US) The Arctic skua (Stercorarius parasiticus).
  8. Ellipsis of Portuguese man-of-war (“Physalia physalis, a jellyfish-like marine cnidarian consisting of a floating colony of hydrozoans attached to a float”).

Taivutusmuodot

Monikkomen-of-war

(military, nautical, chiefly historical) A powerful armed naval vessel, primarily one armed with cannon and propelled by sails; a warship.

Thomas Bastion and I. Cole, The Royal Sovereign, a First Rate Man of War, Carrying 100 Guns and 750 Men (1715). According to the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, London, U.K., this is a hand-coloured print depicting the H.M.S. Royal George, a man-of-war originally called the H.M.S. ''Royal Charles'' when built in 1673.

(specifically, archaic) A frigatebird (family Fregatidae), especially the magnificent frigatebird (Fregata magnificens).

A magnificent frigatebird (Fregata magnificens), also called a man-of-war , on Isla Contoy, Quintana Roo, Mexico.

(specifically, US) The Arctic skua (Stercorarius parasiticus).

An Arctic skua (Stercorarius parasiticus) in Svalbard, known as a man-of-war in the United States.

Ellipsis of Portuguese man-of-war (“Physalia physalis, a jellyfish-like marine cnidarian consisting of a floating colony of hydrozoans attached to a float”).

A man-of-war , known more fully as a Portuguese man-of-war (Physalia physalis).