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Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishnave,navye, fromAnglo-Norman,Old Frenchnavie, fromLatinnāvigia <nāvigium, fromLatinnāvigō,nāvis(“boat”), fromProto-Indo-European*néh₂us. CompareAncient Greekναῦς(naûs,“ship”),Persianناو(nâv,“boat, warship”),Sanskritनाव(nāva,“ship”),Old Englishnōwend(“mariner, sailor”).

Displaced nativeOld Englishsċiphere(literally“ship army”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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navy (countable anduncountable,pluralnavies)

  2. (countable) A country's entiremaritimemilitary force, includingships andpersonnel.
    People who get seasick easily shouldn't join thenavy.
  4. (countable) Agovernmentaldepartment in charge of a country's maritime military force.
  6. (archaic, countable) Anyfleet of maritime vessels, and especially the entire fleet of any particularnationality, including vessels that arecommercial,military, or both.
    Synonym:(archaic)marine
  8. (countable and uncountable) A darkbluecolour, usually callednavy blue.
    navy: 

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Translations

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sea force
department
navy blue colour

Adjective

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navy (comparativemorenavy,superlativemostnavy)

  2. Having the dark blue colour ofnavy blue.
    • 2006, Samantha Hunt,The Seas: A Novel, page57:
      The cover is asnavy as a bruise.
    • 2006, Carol Marinelli,Taken for His Pleasure, page26:
      The morning shadow on his chin was almost asnavy as his heavy-lidded eyes, his cheekbones exquisitely sculptured in his haughty face.
  4. (military) Belonging to the navy; typical of the navy.
    • 1943, Fletcher Pratt,The Navy has wings, page167:
      […] 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 asnavy as the rest, are usually the first to pick it up.
    • 1993, Robert A. Frezza,McLendon's Syndrome, page299:
      Lieutenant Lindquist isnavy 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.
    • 1994, Harry Carey,Company of heroes: my life as an actor in the John Ford stock company, page76:
      It was not what you would picture as a typical meeting with a naval officer. In fact, it was about asnavy as an Abbott and Costello movie.
    • 2003, Jedwin Smith,Fatal treasure: greed and death, emeralds and gold, page88:
      He wasnavy 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, Edwin Palmer Hoyt, Thomas H Moorer,The Men of the Gambier Bay: The Amazing True Story, page21:
      Goodwin wasnavy through and through.

Derived terms

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Terms derived from the noun or adjectivenavy

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Terms etymologically related to the noun or adjectivenavy

Translations

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having a navy (dark blue) colour—see alsolight blue,‎blue
belonging to the navy

See also

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bluesedit

Spanish

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing fromEnglishnavy. See also the relatednavío.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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navy m (uncountable)

  1. navy(marine forces)

Usage notes

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According toRoyal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

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