pre-dreadnought (English, noun)
expansion: pre-dreadnought (plural pre-dreadnoughts)
Senses:
topics: government
military
nautical
politics
transport
war
glosses: A late-19th-century or early-20th-century battleship with a small number of big guns (typically no more than four) and a large number of quick-firing medium-caliber guns. It was made largely obsolete in 1906 by the dreadnought type of battleship.
tags: historical
Forms:
form: pre-dreadnoughts
tags: plural
form: predreadnought
tags: alternative