h.m.s. bounty

1. 1.

   a ship of the British navy; in 1789 part of the crew mutinied against their commander William Bligh and set him afloat in an open boat

   SynonymsBounty

   Broadership

Questions about h.m.s. bounty

What does h.m.s. bounty mean?

h.m.s. bounty means "a ship of the British navy; in 1789 part of the crew mutinied against their commander William Bligh and set him afloat in an open boat".

What is another word for h.m.s. bounty?

Close synonyms include Bounty. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is h.m.s. bounty a common word?

h.m.s. bounty 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.