armadan.

Brit.

/ɑːˈmɑːdə/, U.S.

/ɑrˈmɑdə/

Forms:

α. 1500s–1800s armado, 1600s armatho, 1500s–1600s armade, 1600s armadoe.

β. 1500s armod, 1500s– armada.

γ. 1500s– armata.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Spanish. Partly a borrowing from Italian. Etymons: Spanish armada; Italian armata.

Etymology: Partly (i) < Spanish armada military force (1384), fleet of warships (1400; the specific use with reference to the 1588 fleet sent to conquer England is not paralleled in Spanish), use as noun of feminine past participle of armar arm v.¹, and partly (ii, in γ. forms) < Italian armata military force, (specifically) fleet of warships (both last quarter of the 13th cent.), use as noun of feminine past participle of armare arm v.¹ Compare Catalan armada fleet of warships (late 13th cent.), Portuguese armada military force (1317; 1130 in sense ‘trap to catch animals’), post-classical Latin armata fleet (from 1360 in British sources), army (from c1400 in British sources). Compare earlier army n.With the α. forms compare discussion at -ado suffix and -ade suffix; with the form armade perhaps compare Middle French, French †armade fleet of warships (a1568; < Spanish; French armada (1828) shows a later reborrowing). N.E.D. (1885) gives the pronunciation as (aɹmēⁱ·dă) /ɑːˈmeɪdə/. The current Brit.

/ɑːˈmɑːdə/, U.S.

/ɑrˈmɑdə/ pronunciation is first noted in Funk's Stand. Dict. (1893)and D. Jones Eng. Pronouncing Dict. (1917). British and U.S. dictionaries give the older pronunciation as an alternative until the latter half of the 20th cent.

a. A (large) fleet of warships, esp. one engaging in or en route to a military encounter.In γ forms frequently in Italian contexts.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > navy > a naval force or fleet > [noun]

fleeta1000

floteOE

ship-ferda1122

navya1382

armyc1475

armada1533

class1596

naval1627

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Grand Fleet1696

armament1698

maritime power1711

α.

1533 M. Kyng Let. 1 Oct. in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1827) 2nd Ser. II. 46 The Turks Armado was before Coron.

1596 Raigne of Edward III sig. E2^v I haue discribde my Lord, As I was busie in my watchfull charge. The proud Armado of king Edwards ships.

1604 C. Edmondes Observ. Cæsars Comm. II. vii. v. 56 Such huge armades, as appeareth by the sea fight with the maritimate cities of Gallia.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors (1623) iii. ii. 140 Spaine..sent whole Armadoes of Carrects to be ballast at her nose.

1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World iii. 27 When the Armado lyeth at Portabell.

1716 W. Fuller Humble Appeal conc. Pretender 13 The whole French Armado was oblig'd to return Home.

a1774 J. Ellerker in C. J. Davison Ingledew Ballads & Songs Yorks. (1860) 154 And Louis threat'ned in bravado, T'invade us with a huge armado.

β. 1550 W. Lynne tr. J. Funke Actes & Hist. Worlde 1532–50 in tr. J. Carion Thre Bks. Cronicles f. ccxix^v The Turkyshe Armada retourned homewarde with a greate spoyle and abreption of Golde, Syluer, and many poore imprysoned Christians.1606 P. Holland in tr. Suetonius Hist. Twelve Caesars Annot. 11 The sumptuous Armada of Antonie and Cleopatra was defaited.1687 B. Randolph Present State Archipel. 34 The Venetian armada..have a custom never to be in any haven or port where they may be penn'd in.1728 J. Morgan Compl. Hist. Algiers I. v. 298 We pretend, that this City, already famous for the Defeat of two of your Armadas, shall become far more so by the Disgrace of this your third.1807 J. Barlow Columbiad vii. 270 The matcht armadas still the fight maintain.1815 W. Scott Lord of Isles v. xiii. 190 South and by west the armada bore.1878 R. Simpson School of Shakspere I. 96 A great armada was being prepared which was said to be intended to pass the seas under the leading of Stucley.1946 R.A.F. Jrnl. May 170 Every crew saw the huge armada sailing to the Normandy beaches.2014 E. Southby-Tailyour Exocet Falklands ii. 20 The bulk of that armada sailed within six days, carrying its associated Royal Marines Commando Brigade.γ. 1562 J. Shute tr. A. Cambini in Two Comm. Turcks i. ii. f. 31 The Duke of Venise retorned againe to Venise with his armata [It. larmata] and in this sorte the Nauie was deuided.1618 H. Wotton Let. 26 July (1850) 41 There is now..fresher aduise come from the Armata that those Mutiners were English.1678 T. Smith Remarks Manners of Turks 163 He made Kaplan Bassa, a Georgian, the Admiral of the Turkish Armata.1697 Philos. Trans. 1695–7 (Royal Soc.) 19 661 The great Defeat given the Turkish Armata..by the Venetians.1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Armada or Armata, a naval army, or fleet equip'd for war.1887 M. Oliphant Makers of Venice iii. 65 The whole city rose as one man, and an armata was immediately prepared to resist any that might be sent against Venice.

b. spec. More fully Spanish Armada. Frequently with the. A Spanish naval invasion force sent against England in 1588 by Philip II of Spain.The Armada was defeated by the English fleet and suffered severe losses in storms in the North Atlantic.Also called the Invincible Armada (cf. invincible adj. 1a).

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > navy > a naval force or fleet > [noun] > specific fleet

armada1588

flote1673

flota1690

Home Fleet1705

home guard1712

Channel Fleet1741

Grand Fleet1914

1588 D. Archdeacon in tr. True Disc. Armie King of Spaine 14 The forces of the Spaniards, this their great Armado.

1588 Packe of Spanish Lyes 6/2 The English Nauie fought and did beate the Spanish Armada from viii. of the clock in the Morning, vntill 4. in the afternone.

1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 5 [Vessels] nothing behinde in number with the inuincible Spanish Armada, though they were not such Gargantuan boysterous gulliguts as they.

1603 Eng. Mourn. Garm. in Harl. Misc. (1793) 205 The Spaniards, having their armatho ready.

1641 J. Milton Of Reformation 88 The proud Ship-wracks of the Spanish Armado.

1702 London Gaz. No. 3808/3 The Ambition of Spain, when it..vain gloriously stiled its Armado Invincible.

1762 W. Cole Let. 16 May in H. Walpole Corr. (1937) I. 10 You seem to say that the tapestry hangings representing the destruction of the Armada were put up in the House of Lords in Oliver's administration.

1800 Naval Chron. 3 371 All the large vessels in his memorable armada of 1588, were Portuguese vessels.

1864 J. H. Burton Scot Abroad I. iv. 187 Within eighteen months after the death of Mary, the Armada was in the Channel.

1878 E. Dowden Stud. Lit. 1 The galleons of the Spanish Armada were pulled down by the sea-dogs of Drake.

1907 Daily Chron. 9 Sept. 3/2 The scare of invasion traces to the Armada of 1588.

1959 Elizabethan June 21/1 Fishermen are still bringing up old cannon and bits of bronze from the great galleons of the Spanish Armada.

2002 A. F. Truscott & D. H. Truscott N.Y. Times Bridge Bk. x. 107 Sir Francis Drake played a rubber of bowls while awaiting the approach of the Spanish Armada.

c. More generally: any (large) fleet of ships, boats, etc.; a flotilla.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > [noun] > a number of in company

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mackerel fleeta1862

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1625 S. Purchas Pilgrimes I. ii. vii. 98 An Armado of three and twenty small shippes, made like Ice-sleads.

1675 Mistaken Husband iv. iv. 41 You..whose rich Uncle died lately, and left you an Armado of rich Indian Ships.

1851 Littell's Living Age 4 Oct. 42/1 There was a whole armada of yachts at Ryde on Friday.

1868 H. C. Romanoff Sketches Greco-Russ. Church 317 A perfect armada of steamboats, filled with persons anxious to witness something like the first meeting between the bridegroom and bride.

1914 Pop. Sci. Monthly May 488 They related in mock-heroic style the vicissitudes of an ‘armada’ of steam launches exposed to a rough sea on an excursion to Scarboro heights.

1969 E. Connell Mr Bridge liii. 137 Out of this wallowing armada sailed several stout boats—firm on their course with sails billowing, cheered by the crowd.

2012 B. Johnson in Daily Tel. (Nexis) 4 June 28 I don't think any of us in the flotilla had any idea—before the happy armada first parped and chugged away from Chelsea—of what we were about to experience.

†2. A large warship. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > war vessel > [noun] > large warship

armada1586

castle1642

big stuff1883

1586 in J. Harland Lancashire Lieutenancy under Tudors & Stuarts (1859) II. 177 Viij armadoes or greate shipse.

1600 R. Dudley in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (new ed.) III. 574 He and his company tooke and sunke nine Spanish ships, wherof one was an armada of 600 tunnes.

1625 S. Purchas Pilgrimes IV. viii. xiv. 1678 These [ships] were beaten off, and fifteen seuerall Armadas assailed her.

3. figurative. A (large) group or collection of people, things, etc., esp. one gathered for a purpose, or considered threatening or undesirable.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > an assemblage or collection > [noun] > large or numerous

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1622 T. Dekker & P. Massinger Virgin Martir ii. sig. C4^v The Armado of pimpled, deep scarletted, rubified, and carbuncled faces.

1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) i. 24 An Armado of Dolphins assaulted us.

1647 King of Utopia 2 I am retarded..by many necessary consequences which run like Rivers of Lead o're my soule, overwhelming my choyce with an Armadoe of Barnacles.

1820 J. Ford Serm. Orange, N.-J. 14 Neither the task masters of Egypt, nor the bondage of Babylon..ever threatened wider desolation to the kingdom of Christ than the present armada of heresy.

1841 M. F. Tupper Author's Mind p. v ‘Congratulate me,’ he began, ‘on having dispersed an Armada of head-aches hitherto invincible.’

1861 Temple Bar June 352 I find myself surrounded by a perfect armada of little white dishes.

1956 P. Larkin Less Deceived (ed. 3) 18 Watching from a bluff the tiny, clear, Sparkling armada of promises draw near.

2009 J. T. Gatto Weapons Mass Instr. v. 83 Launching an armada of other initiatives to reintegrate students into a larger human reality.

4. A (large) military force on land or in the air, esp. one engaging in or en route to a battle.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > warriors collectively > [noun]

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1654 M. Stevenson Occasions Off-spring 119 Marcht like an Amazonian armado.

1728 J. Morgan Compl. Hist. Algiers I. iv. 153 The mighty Armadas set on Foot by the Saracen Khalifas.

1837 E. Bulwer-Lytton Athens II. 121 Nor was the naval unworthy of the land armada.

1908 H. G. Wells War in Air viii. §4 The drachenflieger appeared as little flecks on either wing of this aerial Armada.

1943 Hutchinson's Pict. Hist. War 27 Oct. 26 Among the vast armada that was sent up against the invading force of bombers was a special squadron which towed air mines.

1978 Financial Times 2 Mar. 35/4 The neutron weapon affords NATO forces the prospect of a highly cost-effective countermeasure to a tank armada.

2003 News-Jrnl. (Daytona Beach, Florida) (Nexis) 25 Mar. a4 Iraqis battled an armada of Apache helicopters attacking Iraqi positions.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	armada
释义	armadan. Brit. /ɑːˈmɑːdə/, U.S. /ɑrˈmɑdə/ Forms: α. 1500s–1800s armado, 1600s armatho, 1500s–1600s armade, 1600s armadoe. β. 1500s armod, 1500s– armada. γ. 1500s– armata. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Spanish. Partly a borrowing from Italian. Etymons: Spanish armada; Italian armata. Etymology: Partly (i) < Spanish armada military force (1384), fleet of warships (1400; the specific use with reference to the 1588 fleet sent to conquer England is not paralleled in Spanish), use as noun of feminine past participle of armar arm v.¹, and partly (ii, in γ. forms) < Italian armata military force, (specifically) fleet of warships (both last quarter of the 13th cent.), use as noun of feminine past participle of armare arm v.¹ Compare Catalan armada fleet of warships (late 13th cent.), Portuguese armada military force (1317; 1130 in sense ‘trap to catch animals’), post-classical Latin armata fleet (from 1360 in British sources), army (from c1400 in British sources). Compare earlier army n.With the α. forms compare discussion at -ado suffix and -ade suffix; with the form armade perhaps compare Middle French, French †armade fleet of warships (a1568; < Spanish; French armada (1828) shows a later reborrowing). N.E.D. (1885) gives the pronunciation as (aɹmēⁱ·dă) /ɑːˈmeɪdə/. The current Brit. /ɑːˈmɑːdə/, U.S. /ɑrˈmɑdə/ pronunciation is first noted in Funk's Stand. Dict. (1893)and D. Jones Eng. Pronouncing Dict. (1917). British and U.S. dictionaries give the older pronunciation as an alternative until the latter half of the 20th cent. 1. a. A (large) fleet of warships, esp. one engaging in or en route to a military encounter.In γ forms frequently in Italian contexts. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > navy > a naval force or fleet > [noun] fleeta1000 floteOE ship-ferda1122 navya1382 armyc1475 armada1533 class1596 naval1627 armadilla1685 Grand Fleet1696 armament1698 maritime power1711 α. 1533 M. Kyng Let. 1 Oct. in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1827) 2nd Ser. II. 46 The Turks Armado was before Coron. 1596 Raigne of Edward III sig. E2^v I haue discribde my Lord, As I was busie in my watchfull charge. The proud Armado of king Edwards ships. View more context for this quotation 1604 C. Edmondes Observ. Cæsars Comm. II. vii. v. 56 Such huge armades, as appeareth by the sea fight with the maritimate cities of Gallia. a1616 W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors (1623) iii. ii. 140 Spaine..sent whole Armadoes of Carrects to be ballast at her nose. View more context for this quotation 1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World iii. 27 When the Armado lyeth at Portabell. 1716 W. Fuller Humble Appeal conc. Pretender 13 The whole French Armado was oblig'd to return Home. a1774 J. Ellerker in C. J. Davison Ingledew Ballads & Songs Yorks. (1860) 154 And Louis threat'ned in bravado, T'invade us with a huge armado. β. 1550 W. Lynne tr. J. Funke Actes & Hist. Worlde 1532–50 in tr. J. Carion Thre Bks. Cronicles f. ccxix^v The Turkyshe Armada retourned homewarde with a greate spoyle and abreption of Golde, Syluer, and many poore imprysoned Christians.1606 P. Holland in tr. Suetonius Hist. Twelve Caesars Annot. 11 The sumptuous Armada of Antonie and Cleopatra was defaited.1687 B. Randolph Present State Archipel. 34 The Venetian armada..have a custom never to be in any haven or port where they may be penn'd in.1728 J. Morgan Compl. Hist. Algiers I. v. 298 We pretend, that this City, already famous for the Defeat of two of your Armadas, shall become far more so by the Disgrace of this your third.1807 J. Barlow Columbiad vii. 270 The matcht armadas still the fight maintain.1815 W. Scott Lord of Isles v. xiii. 190 South and by west the armada bore.1878 R. Simpson School of Shakspere I. 96 A great armada was being prepared which was said to be intended to pass the seas under the leading of Stucley.1946 R.A.F. Jrnl. May 170 Every crew saw the huge armada sailing to the Normandy beaches.2014 E. Southby-Tailyour Exocet Falklands ii. 20 The bulk of that armada sailed within six days, carrying its associated Royal Marines Commando Brigade.γ. 1562 J. Shute tr. A. Cambini in Two Comm. Turcks i. ii. f. 31 The Duke of Venise retorned againe to Venise with his armata [It. larmata] and in this sorte the Nauie was deuided.1618 H. Wotton Let. 26 July (1850) 41 There is now..fresher aduise come from the Armata that those Mutiners were English.1678 T. Smith Remarks Manners of Turks 163 He made Kaplan Bassa, a Georgian, the Admiral of the Turkish Armata.1697 Philos. Trans. 1695–7 (Royal Soc.) 19 661 The great Defeat given the Turkish Armata..by the Venetians.1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Armada or Armata, a naval army, or fleet equip'd for war.1887 M. Oliphant Makers of Venice iii. 65 The whole city rose as one man, and an armata was immediately prepared to resist any that might be sent against Venice. b. spec. More fully Spanish Armada. Frequently with the. A Spanish naval invasion force sent against England in 1588 by Philip II of Spain.The Armada was defeated by the English fleet and suffered severe losses in storms in the North Atlantic.Also called the Invincible Armada (cf. invincible adj. 1a). ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > navy > a naval force or fleet > [noun] > specific fleet armada1588 flote1673 flota1690 Home Fleet1705 home guard1712 Channel Fleet1741 Grand Fleet1914 1588 D. Archdeacon in tr. True Disc. Armie King of Spaine 14 The forces of the Spaniards, this their great Armado. 1588 Packe of Spanish Lyes 6/2 The English Nauie fought and did beate the Spanish Armada from viii. of the clock in the Morning, vntill 4. in the afternone. 1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 5 [Vessels] nothing behinde in number with the inuincible Spanish Armada, though they were not such Gargantuan boysterous gulliguts as they. 1603 Eng. Mourn. Garm. in Harl. Misc. (1793) 205 The Spaniards, having their armatho ready. 1641 J. Milton Of Reformation 88 The proud Ship-wracks of the Spanish Armado. 1702 London Gaz. No. 3808/3 The Ambition of Spain, when it..vain gloriously stiled its Armado Invincible. 1762 W. Cole Let. 16 May in H. Walpole Corr. (1937) I. 10 You seem to say that the tapestry hangings representing the destruction of the Armada were put up in the House of Lords in Oliver's administration. 1800 Naval Chron. 3 371 All the large vessels in his memorable armada of 1588, were Portuguese vessels. 1864 J. H. Burton Scot Abroad I. iv. 187 Within eighteen months after the death of Mary, the Armada was in the Channel. 1878 E. Dowden Stud. Lit. 1 The galleons of the Spanish Armada were pulled down by the sea-dogs of Drake. 1907 Daily Chron. 9 Sept. 3/2 The scare of invasion traces to the Armada of 1588. 1959 Elizabethan June 21/1 Fishermen are still bringing up old cannon and bits of bronze from the great galleons of the Spanish Armada. 2002 A. F. Truscott & D. H. Truscott N.Y. Times Bridge Bk. x. 107 Sir Francis Drake played a rubber of bowls while awaiting the approach of the Spanish Armada. c. More generally: any (large) fleet of ships, boats, etc.; a flotilla. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > [noun] > a number of in company consort1591 armada1625 fleet1697 mackerel fleeta1862 fleetful1899 1625 S. Purchas Pilgrimes I. ii. vii. 98 An Armado of three and twenty small shippes, made like Ice-sleads. 1675 Mistaken Husband iv. iv. 41 You..whose rich Uncle died lately, and left you an Armado of rich Indian Ships. 1851 Littell's Living Age 4 Oct. 42/1 There was a whole armada of yachts at Ryde on Friday. 1868 H. C. Romanoff Sketches Greco-Russ. Church 317 A perfect armada of steamboats, filled with persons anxious to witness something like the first meeting between the bridegroom and bride. 1914 Pop. Sci. Monthly May 488 They related in mock-heroic style the vicissitudes of an ‘armada’ of steam launches exposed to a rough sea on an excursion to Scarboro heights. 1969 E. Connell Mr Bridge liii. 137 Out of this wallowing armada sailed several stout boats—firm on their course with sails billowing, cheered by the crowd. 2012 B. Johnson in Daily Tel. (Nexis) 4 June 28 I don't think any of us in the flotilla had any idea—before the happy armada first parped and chugged away from Chelsea—of what we were about to experience. †2. A large warship. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > war vessel > [noun] > large warship armada1586 castle1642 big stuff1883 1586 in J. Harland Lancashire Lieutenancy under Tudors & Stuarts (1859) II. 177 Viij armadoes or greate shipse. 1600 R. Dudley in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (new ed.) III. 574 He and his company tooke and sunke nine Spanish ships, wherof one was an armada of 600 tunnes. 1625 S. Purchas Pilgrimes IV. viii. xiv. 1678 These [ships] were beaten off, and fifteen seuerall Armadas assailed her. 3. figurative. A (large) group or collection of people, things, etc., esp. one gathered for a purpose, or considered threatening or undesirable. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > an assemblage or collection > [noun] > large or numerous legiona1325 rout?c1335 multitudec1350 thrave1377 cloudc1384 schoola1450 meiniec1450 throng1538 ruckc1540 multitudine1547 swarm1548 regiment1575 armya1586 volley1595 pile1596 battalion1603 wood1608 host1613 armada1622 crowd1628 battalia1653 squadron1668 raffa1677 smytrie1786 raft1821 squash1884 1622 T. Dekker & P. Massinger Virgin Martir ii. sig. C4^v The Armado of pimpled, deep scarletted, rubified, and carbuncled faces. 1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) i. 24 An Armado of Dolphins assaulted us. 1647 King of Utopia 2 I am retarded..by many necessary consequences which run like Rivers of Lead o're my soule, overwhelming my choyce with an Armadoe of Barnacles. 1820 J. Ford Serm. Orange, N.-J. 14 Neither the task masters of Egypt, nor the bondage of Babylon..ever threatened wider desolation to the kingdom of Christ than the present armada of heresy. 1841 M. F. Tupper Author's Mind p. v ‘Congratulate me,’ he began, ‘on having dispersed an Armada of head-aches hitherto invincible.’ 1861 Temple Bar June 352 I find myself surrounded by a perfect armada of little white dishes. 1956 P. Larkin Less Deceived (ed. 3) 18 Watching from a bluff the tiny, clear, Sparkling armada of promises draw near. 2009 J. T. Gatto Weapons Mass Instr. v. 83 Launching an armada of other initiatives to reintegrate students into a larger human reality. 4. A (large) military force on land or in the air, esp. one engaging in or en route to a battle. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warriors collectively > [noun] trumec893 wic897 ferredc1200 knight-weredc1275 preyc1300 legion?1316 companyc1325 punyec1330 virtuec1350 fellowshipc1380 knightheada1382 knighthooda1382 strengtha1382 sop?a1400 strengh?a1400 tropelc1425 armyc1450 framec1450 preparing1497 armourya1500 cohortc1500 cohortationc1500 cateran?a1513 venlin1541 troop1545 guidon1560 crew1570 preparation1573 esquadron1579 bodya1616 armada1654 expedition1693 armament1698 host1807 war-party1921 1654 M. Stevenson Occasions Off-spring 119 Marcht like an Amazonian armado. 1728 J. Morgan Compl. Hist. Algiers I. iv. 153 The mighty Armadas set on Foot by the Saracen Khalifas. 1837 E. Bulwer-Lytton Athens II. 121 Nor was the naval unworthy of the land armada. 1908 H. G. Wells War in Air viii. §4 The drachenflieger appeared as little flecks on either wing of this aerial Armada. 1943 Hutchinson's Pict. Hist. War 27 Oct. 26 Among the vast armada that was sent up against the invading force of bombers was a special squadron which towed air mines. 1978 Financial Times 2 Mar. 35/4 The neutron weapon affords NATO forces the prospect of a highly cost-effective countermeasure to a tank armada. 2003 News-Jrnl. (Daytona Beach, Florida) (Nexis) 25 Mar. a4 Iraqis battled an armada of Apache helicopters attacking Iraqi positions. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1533
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