navy

plural navies

1. countableA country's entire maritime military force, including ships and personnel.

   People who get seasick easily shouldn't join the navy.

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   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

2. countableA governmental department in charge of a country's maritime military force.
3. archaiccountableAny fleet of maritime vessels, and especially the entire fleet of any particular nationality, including vessels that are commercial, military, or both.

   Synonyms: marine

4. countableuncountableA dark blue colour, usually called navy blue.

comparative more navy · superlative most navy

1. 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

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   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

2. governmentBelonging to the navy; typical of the navy.

   Goodwin was navy through and through.

   2003, Edwin Palmer Hoyt, Thomas H Moorer, The Men of the Gambier Bay: The Amazing True Story, page 21

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   […] 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

   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.

   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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1. A female given name.

   President Joe Biden acknowledged his seventh grandchild publicly for the first time on Friday, Hunter's 4-year-old daughter, Navy.

   2023 June 29, Elizabeth Schulze, Ben Gittleson, and Riley Hoffman, “Biden publicly acknowledges 7th grandchild for 1st time, the daughter of Hunter”, in ABC News

2. A male given name.