different between squadron vs navy

English

Etymology

From Italian squadrone. See squad.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?skw?d.??n/

Noun

squadron (plural squadrons) (abbreviated to: sqn)

1. (obsolete) Primarily, a square; hence, a square body of troops; a body of troops drawn up in a square.
2. (military, historical, army) A body of cavalry comprising two companies or troops, averaging from one hundred and twenty to two hundred soldiers.
3. (military) A body of infantrymen made up of several platoons, averaging from eighty to one hundred and fifty men, and led by a captain or a major.
4. (military, navy) A detachment of vessels employed on any particular service or station, under the command of the senior officer

5. (military, air force) A tactical air force unit; consists of at least two flights; multiple squadrons make up a group or wing (depending on particular air force).
6. (US, military, U.S. Space Force) A spaceforce unit; multiple squadrons make up an operations delta or a support garrison.

Derived terms

• flying squadron
• squaddie / squaddy
• Squadron Leader, squadron leader

Related terms

• squad

Translations

English

Etymology

From Middle English nave, navye, from Anglo-Norman, Old French navie, from Latin n?vigia < n?vigium, from Latin n?vig?, n?vis (“boat”), from Proto-Indo-European *néh?us. Compare Ancient Greek ???? (naûs, “ship”), Persian ???? (nâv, “boat, warship”), Sanskrit ??? (n?va, “ship”), Old English n?wend (“mariner, sailor”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ne?vi/
• Rhymes: -e?vi

Noun

navy (countable and uncountable, plural navies)

1. (countable) A country's entire sea force, including ships and personnel.

2. (countable) A governmental department in charge of a country's sea force.
3. (countable and uncountable) A dark blue colour, usually called navy blue.

Translations

Adjective

navy (comparative more navy, superlative most navy)

2. Having the dark blue colour of navy blue.
3. Belonging to the navy; typical of the navy.
   • 2003, Edwin Palmer Hoyt, Thomas H Moorer, The Men of the Gambier Bay: The Amazing True Story, page 21:

     Goodwin was navy through and through.

Quotations

• 2001, Lynda Barry, Cruddy, page 21:

  Possibly she was more Navy than I was.

• 2004, James L. Nelson, Glory in the Name: A Novel of the Confederate Navy, page 100:

  One glance told him Fairfax was old navy, through and through.

• 2008, Don Pendleton, The Killing Rule, page 201:

  The skipper was Russian navy through and through. He considered this his duty, and he was prepared to die doing it.

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See also

• (blues) blue; Alice blue, aqua, aquamarine, azure, baby blue, beryl, bice, bice blue, blue green, blue violet, blueberry, cadet blue, Cambridge blue, cerulean, cobalt blue, Copenhagen blue, cornflower, cornflower blue, cyan, dark blue, Dodger blue, duck-egg blue, eggshell blue, electric-blue, gentian blue, ice blue, lapis lazuli, light blue, lovat, mazarine, midnight blue, navy, Nile blue, Oxford blue, peacock blue, petrol blue, powder blue, Prussian blue, robin's-egg blue, royal blue, sapphire, saxe blue, slate blue, sky blue, teal, turquoise, ultramarine, Wedgwood blue, zaffre ^{(Category: en:Blues)}

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English navy. See also the related navío.

Noun

navy m (uncountable)

1. navy (marine forces)