naval engineer

1. 1.

   a naval officer responsible for the operation and maintenance of the ship's engines

   Synonymsmarine engineer

   Broaderengineer

   military

Questions about naval engineer

What does naval engineer mean?

naval engineer means "a naval officer responsible for the operation and maintenance of the ship's engines".

What is another word for naval engineer?

Close synonyms include marine engineer. 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 naval engineer a common word?

naval engineer 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.