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Definition of Dreadnoughts
1. dreadnought [n] - See also: dreadnought
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dreadnoughts
Literary usage of Dreadnoughts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1908)
"... l was never son of a gun, but l have not two to one; l have only a hundred-and-flve;
we mast fly to keep alive. Oue-hundred-aud-five dreadnoughts ! ..."
2. The Great Illusion: A Study of the Relation of Military Power in Nations to by Sir Norman Angell (1911)
"... them—"dreadnoughts" and business—While "dreadnoughts" protect trade from
hypothetical German warships, the real German merchant is carrying it off, ..."
3. The Great Illusion: A Study of the Relation of Military Power to National by Norman Angell (1913)
"... POWER Why trade cannot be destroyed or captured by a military Power —What the
processes of trade really are, and how a navy affects them—dreadnoughts ..."
4. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by Anna Lorraine Guthrie, Marion A. Knight, H.W. Wilson Company, Estella E. Painter (1920)
"Mod Lang Notes 33:405-8 N •18 463 Ap 12 '19 dreadnoughts. See Warships Dream of
Gerontius. See Newman, John Henry, cardinal Dream of the rood Liturgical ..."
5. The New York Times Current History (1917)
"Of these 23 were pre-dreadnoughts, built before 1905; 10 were dreadnoughts, built
between 1905 and 1910, and 30 (nearly one-half of the whole, and, ..."
6. Rising Japan: Is She a Menace Or a Comrade to be Welcomed in the Fraternity by Jabez Thomas Sunderland (1918)
"To enter into details, the American navy, as it stands today, consists of 19
dreadnoughts (including two now under construction and known as No. 43 and No. ..."
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