war vessel

Questions about war vessel

What does war vessel mean?

war vessel means "a government ship that is available for waging war".

What is another word for war vessel?

Close synonyms include warship, combat ship. 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 war vessel a common word?

war vessel 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.