Navy

Noun

 * 1) A country's entire sea force, including ships and personnel.
 * 2) A governmental department in charge of a country's sea force.
 * 3) A dark blue colour, usually called navy blue.

Adjective

 * 1) Having the dark blue colour of navy blue.
 * 2) * 2006, Samantha Hunt, The Seas: A Novel, page 57:
 * The cover is as navy as a bruise.
 * 1) * 2006, Carol Marinelli, Taken for His Pleasure, page 26:
 * The morning shadow on his chin was almost as navy as his heavy-lidded eyes, his cheekbones exquisitely sculptured in his haughty face.
 * 1) Belonging to the navy; typical of the navy.
 * 2) * 1943, Fletcher Pratt, The Navy has wings, page 167:
 * [...] 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.
 * 1) * 1993, Robert A. Frezza, McLendon's Syndrome, page 299:
 * 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.
 * 1) * 1994, Harry Carey, Company of heroes: my life as an actor in the John Ford stock company, page 76:
 * It was not what you would picture as a typical meeting with a naval officer. In fact, it was about as navy as an Abbott and Costello movie.
 * 1) * 2003, Jedwin Smith, Fatal treasure: greed and death, emeralds and gold, page 88:
 * 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.
 * 1) * 2003, Edwin Palmer Hoyt, Thomas H Moorer, The Men of the Gambier Bay: The Amazing True Story, page 21:
 * Goodwin was navy through and through.

Quotations

 * 2001, Lynda Barry, Cruddy, page 21:
 * Possibly she was more Navy than I was.
 * 2004, James L. Nelson, Glory in the Name: A Novel of the Confederate Navy, page 100:
 * One glance told him Fairfax was old navy, through and through.
 * 2008, Don Pendleton, The Killing Rule, page 201:
 * The skipper was Russian navy through and through. He considered this his duty, and he was prepared to die doing it.

Thesaurus
Naval Construction Battalion, RN, Royal Navy, Seabees, USN, United States Navy, argosy, armada, bottoms, cavendish, chaw, chew, chewing tobacco, coast guard, cud, cut plug, division, eating tobacco, escadrille, fid, fleet, flotilla, line, marine, merchant fleet, merchant marine, merchant navy, mosquito fleet, naval forces, naval militia, naval reserve, navy plug, pigtail, quid, shipping, ships, squadron, task force, task group, tobacco juice, tonnage, twist, whaling fleet

Etymology

 * From navis: via  navie:. Compare Persian ناو:

Noun

 * Arabic: بحرية
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Min Nan: ,
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: merevägi
 * Finnish:
 * French: force navale,
 * German:, Seestreitkräfte
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: חיל הים
 * Hindi: नौसेना
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian: angkatan laut, marinir


 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Latin:
 * Lithuanian: laivynas
 * Norwegian:
 * Persian: (niruye-daryayi), نیروی دریایی
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: forță navală, marină militară, flotă de război
 * Russian:, , военно-морские силы
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: నావికాదళం (naavikaadaLam)
 * Vietnamese:


 * Croatian:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French: force navale, marine
 * German: Marineamt
 * Hungarian:


 * Indonesian: angkatan laut
 * Japanese:
 * Lithuanian: laivynas
 * Norwegian:
 * Persian: (niruye-daryayi)
 * Polish:
 * Scottish Gaelic:


 * Danish: marineblå
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian: meresinine
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: marineblau
 * Japanese: ネービーブルー (neibīburū)


 * Norwegian: marineblå
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: синий
 * Spanish: azul marino


 * : tentera laut
 * : marina

Adjective

 * Dutch:
 * Estonian: meresinine
 * Finnish:
 * French: bleu marine


 * Japanese: ネービーブルーの (neibīburū no)
 * Norwegian: marineblå
 * Portuguese:


 * Croatian: mornarički
 * Dutch: zeemacht-, marine-
 * Esperanto: mararmea
 * Finnish: laivasto-
 * French: ,
 * Greek:


 * Hungarian: tengerészeti
 * Latin: classiarus
 * Norwegian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Telugu: నావికా (naavikaa)

Derived terms

 * merchant navy
 * naval
 * naval dockyard


 * navy bean
 * navy cut
 * Navy Cross


 * navy yard
 * Royal Navy

Related terms

 * navicular
 * nonnaval