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gunboat

US/ˈɡʌnˌboʊt/

gunboat noun: any of the various types of small armed vessels.

Noun

gunboat (plural gunboats)

  1. Any of the various types of small armed vessels.
    • Nothing beats a gunboat. HMS Illustrious glided out of Portsmouth on Monday, past HMS Victory and cheering crowds of patriots. Within a week it will be off Gibraltar, a mere cannon shot from Cape Trafalgar.2013 August 14, Simon Jenkins, “Gibraltar and the Falklands deny the logic of history”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 22 Apr 2021
    • Knock knock. It's the United States. With huge boats (with guns); gunboats.2016 February 2, Bill Wurtz, 4:45 from the start, in history of japan

gunboat meaning in Tamil, Tagalog, Arabic and Thai

gunboat in Tamil

துப்பாக்கிப் படகு

gunboat in Tagalog

small armed vessel
bapor kanyonero

gunboat in Arabic

small armed vessel
زَوْرَق مِدْفَعِيَّة zawraq midfaʕiyya

gunboat in Thai

small armed vessel
เรือปืน

Examples of gunboat in a sentence

  • A timberclad warship is a kind of mid 19th century river gunboat.
  • And when it comes to a gunboat, you've got some very good people here.
  • Three timberclad gunboats also joined the federal flotilla as escorts for the troop transports.

All 15 example sentences with gunboat

Forms of gunboat

pluralgunboats

Origin of gunboat

From gun + boat.

Words formed from gunboat

Phrases with gunboat

Questions about gunboat

What does gunboat mean?
Gunboat means any of the various types of small armed vessels.
What is gunboat in Tamil?
Gunboat in Tamil is துப்பாக்கிப் படகு. See Gunboat meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is gunboat?
Gunboat is a noun.
How do you pronounce gunboat?
Gunboat is pronounced /ˈɡʌnˌboʊt/ (US).
What is the plural of gunboat?
The plural of gunboat is gunboats.

Words near gunboat in the dictionary

  1. gunbearers
  2. gunbelt
  3. gunbelts
  4. gunbird
  5. gunbirds
  6. gunboat
  7. gunboat diplomacies
  8. gunboat diplomacy
  9. gunboater
  10. gunboaters
  11. gunboating

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: gunboat (page history and authors); gunboat (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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