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armada

 
(är-mä'də, -mā'-) pronunciation
n.
  1. A fleet of warships.
  2. A large group of moving things: an armada of ants crossing the lawn.

[Spanish, from Medieval Latin armāta. See army.]


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IN BRIEF: A fleet of war ships.

pronunciation The full armada docked at the port.

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Armada is the Spanish and Portuguese word for naval fleet, or an adjective meaning 'armed'; Armáda is the Czech and Slovak for armed forces. It may refer to:

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Military

Military campaigns

  • Spanish Armada or Great Armada, an unsuccessful attempted invasion of England by Spain in 1588
  • English Armada or Counter Armada, an unsuccessful English naval campaign in 1589 aimed at capturing Lisbon and other coastal towns from Spain
  • Armada of 1779 or Other Armada, an unsuccessful attempted invasion of England by France and Spain in 1779

Ships

  • HMS Armada, two ships in the British Royal Navy
  • USS Armada, World War II minesweeper of the US Navy

Armed forces

Products

Computing

Sports

Business

Music

People

  • General Alfonso Armada, a Spanish military officer condemned as one of the plotters of the 23-F attempted coup
  • Juan Armada y Losada, Spanish politician

Places

Other uses

  • Armada (moth), a genus of moths of the Noctuidae family
  • Armada (Bas-Lag), the name of a fictional floating city in China Miéville's novel The Scar
  • Armada (Capoeira), a move in the Brazilian martial art capoeira
  • Armada de Molucca, 1519 exploration fleet led by Ferdinand Magellan
  • The Halley Armada, a group of space probes sent to examine Halley's comet
  • The Armada gasfields a group of gas fields named after people associated with the Spanish Armada located in the North Sea.

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - armada, stor flåde

Nederlands (Dutch)
armada, vloot

Français (French)
n. - Armada

Deutsch (German)
n. - Armada

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - (ναυτ.) αρμάδα, στόλος

Italiano (Italian)
armata

Português (Portuguese)
n. - armada (f) (Mil.), frota (f) de navios de guerra (Mil.), esquadra (f) de aviões (Mil.)

Русский (Russian)
армада

Español (Spanish)
n. - armada

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - armada

中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
舰队

中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 艦隊

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 함대

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 艦隊, 大編成部隊, 無敵艦隊

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) الأرمادا, الأرمادا التي لا تقهر أسطول حربي اسباني لمحاربه الإنجليز, قهوه عظيمه‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮צי, ארמדה‬


 
 

 

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