navy

UK/ˈneɪvi/

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British/ˈnɛjvɪj/

navy noun: a country's entire maritime military force, including ships and personnel.

Noun

navy (countable and uncountable, plural navies)

(countable) A country's entire maritime military force, including ships and personnel.
- The skipper Mr. Cooke had hired at Far Harbor was a God-fearing man with a luke warm interest in his new billet and employer, and had only been prevailed upon to take charge of the yacht after the offer of an emolument equal to half a year's sea pay of an ensign in the navy.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter X, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC
- People who get seasick easily shouldn't join the navy.
(countable) A governmental department in charge of a country's maritime military force.
(archaic, countable) Any fleet of maritime vessels, and especially the entire fleet of any particular nationality, including vessels that are commercial, military, or both.

Synonyms:

marine
A dark blue colour, usually called navy blue.

Adjective

navy (comparative more navy, superlative most navy)

Having the dark blue colour of navy blue.
- The cover is as navy as a bruise.2006, Samantha Hunt, The Seas: A Novel, page 57
- The morning shadow on his chin was almost as navy as his heavy-lidded eyes, his cheekbones exquisitely sculptured in his haughty face.2006, Carol Marinelli, Taken for His Pleasure, page 26
Belonging to the navy; typical of the navy.
- […] there are chess ships and checker ships and those where acey-deucey is almost the only game, the sailors' own improved version of backgammon. Fliers from the seacoast of Iowa, anxious to be as navy as the rest, are usually the first to pick it up.1943, Fletcher Pratt, The Navy has wings, page 167
- Lieutenant Lindquist is navy through and through. I know she doesn't want to get out. Now, I know there's no way you can assign her to a navy ship, but there has to be something the navy can give her to keep her in space.1993, Robert A. Frezza, McLendon's Syndrome, page 299

navy meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

navy in Hindi

sea force: नौसेना nausenā, नाविकदल nāvikdal, जलसेना jalsenā, समुद्री सेना samudrī senā

navy in Marathi

navy: नौसेना nausenā, नौदल naudal

navy in Urdu

sea force: بحریہ bahriya

More languagesFewer languages

navy in Bengali: নৌবাহিনী, যুদ্ধজাহাজ বহর, গাঢ় নীল রঙ
navy in Telugu: నావికాదళం nāvikādaḷaṁ, నావికా nāvikā
navy in Malayalam: കപ്പൽപ്പട, നാവികസൈന്യം, യുദ്ധക്കപ്പൽക്കൂട്ടം
navy in Kannada: ಹಡಗುಪಡೆ, ನೌಕಾಪಡೆ
navy in Punjabi: ਜਲ ਸੈਨਾ jal sainā, ਬੇੜਾ beṛā
navy in Gujarati: નૌસેના nausenā
navy in Odia: ନୌସେନା, ନୌବାହିନୀ, ନୌସେନାର
navy in Nepali: नौसेना, नौसेनाले, नौसैनिक
navy in Tagalog: hukbong-dagat
navy in Arabic: بَحْرِيَّة baḥriyya, كُحْلِيّ kuḥliyy
navy in Malay: tentera laut, angkatan laut, biru kelasi
navy in Indonesian: angkatan laut, marinir
navy in Persian: نیروی دریایی niruye-daryâyi
navy in Thai: กองทัพเรือ gɔɔng-táp-rʉʉa, ทัพเรือ táp-rʉʉa, นาวี naa-wii, (สี)กรมท่า grommatâa
navy in Vietnamese: hải quân
navy in Myanmar: ရေတပ် retap

Examples of navy in a sentence

In fact, it was about as navy as an Abbott and Costello movie.1994, Harry Carey, Company of heroes: my life as an actor in the John Ford stock company, page 76:
He was navy through and through; no-nonsense, humorless, and all spit and polish—every hair in its place, every thought gleaned from the manual compiled by brilliant sea dogs of long ago.2003, Jedwin Smith, Fatal treasure: greed and death, emeralds and gold, page 88:

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Synonyms of navy

marine

Forms of navy

Noun
plural	navies
Adjective
comparative	more navy
superlative	most navy

Plural of navy: navies

Origin of navy

From Middle English nave, navye, from Anglo-Norman, Old French navie, from Latin nāvigia < nāvigium, from Latin nāvigō, nāvis (“boat”), from Proto-Indo-European *néh₂us. Compare Ancient Greek ναῦς (naûs, “ship”), Persian ناو (nâv, “boat, warship”), Sanskrit नाव (nāva, “ship”), Old English nōwend (“mariner, sailor”). By surface analysis, Latin nav- + -y. Displaced native Old English sċiphere (literally “ship army”).

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Questions about navy

What does navy mean?: Navy means a country's entire maritime military force, including ships and personnel.
What is navy in Hindi?: Navy in Hindi is नौसेना (nausenā), नाविकदल (nāvikdal), जलसेना (jalsenā). See Navy meaning in Hindi.
How do you use navy in a sentence?: In fact, it was about as navy as an Abbott and Costello movie.
What part of speech is navy?: Navy can be a noun or an adjective.
How do you pronounce navy?: Navy is pronounced /ˈneɪvi/ (UK).
What is the plural of navy?: The plural of navy is navies.

Words near navy in the dictionary

Adapted from Wiktionary: navy (page history and authors); नौदल (Marathi) (page history and authors); navy (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); navy (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); navy (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ਜਲ ਸੈਨਾ (Punjabi) (page history and authors); નૌસેના (Gujarati) (page history and authors); navy (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); navy (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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.

Last updated: 2026-09-02

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