frigates

Meaning of frigates

noun
  1. An obsolete type of sailing warship with a single continuous gun deck, typically used for patrolling, blockading, etc, but not in line of battle.
  2. A 19th-century warship combining sail and steam propulsion, typically of ironclad timber construction, supplementing and superseding sailing ships of the battle line until made obsolete by the development of the solely steam-propelled iron battleship.
  3. A modern type of warship, smaller than a destroyer, originally (WWII) introduced as an anti-submarine vessel but now general purpose.
  4. A frigatebird.

Information about frigates

  • It is a name.
  • The singular form of frigates is: frigate.
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Hyphenation of frigates

frigates

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 8 chars.
  • frigates is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

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