dreadnought C2+ Topic:Time US /ˈdrɛdnɔt/ UK /ˈdrɛdnɔːt/ See IPA manual Meanings 1 noun a heavily armed early-20th-century battleship The dreadnought's massive guns dominated the naval race. Thesaurus Synonyms 1 noun · a heavily armed... battleshipwarshipman-of-war Word family Related forms dreadnoughtdreadnaught Etymology AI details A compound of 'dread' + 'nought' ('nothing'), literally 'fearing nothing'; the battleship sense comes from HMS Dreadnought (1906), which gave its name to the class. drǣdan Old English nāwiht Old English View etymology graph -> Topics Time External links Cambridge Dictionary Wiktionary Google Images # dreadnought **Type:** Word **Level:** C2+ **Part of speech:** noun **IPA (US):** /ˈdrɛdnɔt/ **IPA (UK):** /ˈdrɛdnɔːt/ ## Meanings 1. a heavily armed early-20th-century battleship ## Examples - The dreadnought's massive guns dominated the naval race. ## Synonyms - battleship - warship - man-of-war ## Related Forms - dread - nought - dreadnaught ## Roots and Affixes - Root: drǣdan - Root: nāwiht ## Etymology A compound of 'dread' + 'nought' ('nothing'), literally 'fearing nothing'; the battleship sense comes from HMS Dreadnought (1906), which gave its name to the class. ## AI Etymology Dreadnought is a compound of 'dread' + 'nought' ('nothing'), literally 'fearing nothing'; the battleship sense comes from HMS Dreadnought (1906), which gave its name to the class. The ancestry passes through Old English drǣdan and Old English nāwiht. In present use as a noun, it means "a heavily armed early-20th-century battleship", keeping the historical formation close to the word's ordinary semantic work. As a compound, its meaning is assembled from the two visible parts rather than from an opaque borrowing. Related words include dread, nought, and dreadnaught. ## Topics - Time markdown