man-of-war
Americannoun
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a warship
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of man-of-war
1400–50 in sense “soldier”; late Middle English
Vocabulary lists containing man-of-war
Example Sentences
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“He has this talent of being a man of war, but that’s not enough — he has to integrate into this society.”
From New York Times • Nov. 16, 2016
"Nobody has been killed by Portuguese man of war stings in the UK so far," the Marine Conservation Society's Dr Peter Richardson told the Today programme.
From BBC • Sep. 8, 2012
But for all its relative obscurity, it is Shakespeare’s most acute psychological study of a man of war; and Ralph Fiennes, as director and star, has turned it into an urgent, burly action film.
From Time • Dec. 4, 2011
There was another present, even more splendid, for which Russia's popular man of war did not have to wait.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was a man of many parts: a scholar, an artist, an engineer, an architect, a man of peace, and a man of war.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
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