battleship

IPA: bˈætʌɫʃɪp

(military, nautical) A large capital warship displacing thousands to tens of thousands of tons, heavily armoured and armed with large-caliber guns; now obsolescent and replaced by smaller vessels with guided missiles.
(science fiction, by extension) A starship of comparable role
(military, nautical, archaic) A ship of the line.
A non-functional rocket stage, used for configuration and integration tests.
A guessing game played on grid paper; see Battleship (game).

Examples of "battleship" in Sentences

"The battleship is the least sensitive to start on."
– at the spaceport where the battleship is about to blast off.
A battleship is the highest type and, of course, the most expensive.
Obama gets 3 things thrown at him and his battleship is already sinking! lmao.
The West Virginia was moored with six other battleships beside Ford Island -- it was called battleship row.
The main Japanese battleship fleet had been advancing, at least until very recently, on the San Bernardino Strait.
This series, about a navy battleship from the Japanese Self-Defence Forces transported back to WWII, sounds like a gripping, mature story of tough choices and tougher consquences.