frigate

1. 1.

   a medium size square-rigged warship of the 18th and 19th centuries

   Broaderwarship
2. 2.

   a United States warship larger than a destroyer and smaller than a cruiser

   Broaderwarship

   Narrowerguided missile frigate

Other forms of frigate

plural

frigates·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about frigate

What does frigate mean?

frigate means "a medium size square-rigged warship of the 18th and 19th centuries". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in frigate?

frigate has 2 syllables: frig-ate. The stress falls on "frig". In IPA it is /ˈfɹɪɡət/.

Is frigate a common word?

frigate is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.