capital ship

1. 1.

   a warship of the first rank in size and armament

   Broaderwarship

Questions about capital ship

What does capital ship mean?

capital ship means "a warship of the first rank in size and armament".

Is capital ship a common word?

capital ship is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.