navy

Other forms of navy

plural

navies·

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 navy

What does navy mean?

navy means "an organization of military vessels belonging to a country and available for sea warfare". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in navy?

navy has 2 syllables: na-vy. The stress falls on "na". In IPA it is /ˈneɪvi/.

What is another word for navy?

Close synonyms include naval forces, dark blue, navy blue, United States Navy, US Navy. 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 navy a common word?

navy is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.