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Noun
aircraft carrier (plural aircraft carriers)
- A warship designed to carry aircraft, serving as a seagoing air base, with a deck on which aircraft can be launched and landed.
2025 April 10, Brad Lendon, “‘Frankenjet’ stealth fighter made from two wrecked warplanes joins US Air Force fleet”, in CNN[1]:The US Air Force has 383 F-35As in its fleet, according to the International Institute for Strategic Studies.
The F-35A is one of the three versions of the US military’s stealth fighter. The Marine Corps flies the F-35B – a short take-off, vertical landing aircraft – and the Navy flies the F-35C, designed for aircraft carrier operations.
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warship for launching aircraft
- Afrikaans: vliegdekskip
- Albanian: aeroplanmbajtëse (sq) f
- Arabic: حَمَلَةُ طَائِرَات f (ḥamalatu ṭāʔirāt)
- Armenian: ավիակիր (hy) (aviakir)
- Azerbaijani: aviadaşıyıcı
- Basque: hegazkin-ontzi
- Belarusian: авіяно́сец m (avijanósjec)
- Bengali: যুদ্ধবিমান পরিবাহক (juddhobiman poribahok)
- Bulgarian: самолетоноса́ч (bg) m (samoletonosáč)
- Catalan: portaavions (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Hokkien: please add this translation if you can
- Mandarin: 航空母艦 / 航空母舰 (zh) (hángkōng mǔjiàn), (abbreviation) 航母 (zh) (hángmǔ)
- Czech: letadlová loď (cs) f
- Danish: hangarskib n
- Dutch: vliegdekschip (nl) n
- Esperanto: aviadila ŝipo, aviadilporta, aviporta ŝipo, aviadilŝipo
- Estonian: lennukikandja
- Faroese: flogberi m
- Finnish: lentotukialus (fi)
- French: porte-avions (fr) m
- Galician: porta-avións m
- Georgian: ავიამზიდი (aviamzidi), ავიამზიდი გემი (aviamzidi gemi), ავიამზიდი ხომალდი (aviamzidi xomaldi)
- German: Flugzeugträger (de) m
- Greek: αεροπλανοφόρο (el) n (aeroplanofóro)
- Hebrew: נוֹשֵׂאת מְטוֹסִים (he) f (noset metosim)
- Hindi: विमान वाहक पोत (vimān vāhak pot)
- Hungarian: repülőgép-hordozó (hu), repülőgép-anyahajó (hu) (colloquial)
- Icelandic: lugmóðurskip n
- Indonesian: kapal induk (id)
- Irish: iompróir aerárthaí m
- Italian: portaerei (it) f, portaeromobili f
- Japanese: 航空母艦 (ja) (こうくうぼかん, kōkūbokan), (abbreviation) 空母 (ja) (くうぼ, kūbo)
- Kazakh: ұшақ тасығыш (ūşaq tasyğyş)
- Korean: 항공모함(航空母艦) (ko) (hanggongmoham), (abbreviation) 항모(航母) (hangmo)
- Latin: navis aëroplanigera f
- Latvian: aviācijas bāzeskuģis m
- Lithuanian: lėktuvnešis m
- Macedonian: носач на авио́ни m (nosač na avióni)
- Malay: kapal pengangkut pesawat, kapal induk pesawat udara
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: нисэх онгоц тээвэрлэгч (nisex ongoc teeverlegč), нисгэлийн суурь онгоц (nisgeliin suurʹ ongoc) (China)
- Mongolian: ᠨᠢᠰᠬᠦ
ᠣᠩᠭᠤᠴᠠ
ᠲᠡᠭᠡᠭᠡᠪᠦᠷᠢᠯᠡᠭᠴᠢ (niskü ongɣuča tegegebürileɣči), ᠨᠢᠰᠬᠡᠯ ᠦᠨ
ᠰᠠᠭᠤᠷᠢ
ᠣᠩᠭᠤᠴᠠ (niskel-ün saɣuri ongɣuča)
- Navajo: tsin naaʼeeł chidí naatʼaʼí bee nágéhé
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: hangarskip n
- Nynorsk: hangarskip n
- Pali: ākāsayānanāvā f
- Persian: ناو هواپیمابر (fa) (nâv-e havâpeymâbar)
- Polish: lotniskowiec (pl) m, awiomatka f
- Portuguese: porta-aviões (pt) m
- Romanian: portavion (ro) n
- Russian: авиано́сец (ru) m (avianósec), авиама́тка (ru) f (aviamátka)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: носач авиона m (Serbia), носач зракоплова m (Croatia)
- Roman: nosač aviona m (Serbia), nosač zrakoplova m (Croatia)
- Slovak: lietadlová loď f
- Slovene: letalonosilka f
- Spanish: portaaviones (es) m
- Swedish: hangarfartyg (sv) n
- Tamil: வானூர்தி தாங்கிக் கப்பல் (vāṉūrti tāṅkik kappal)
- Thai: เรือบรรทุกอากาศยาน (rʉʉa-ban-túk-aa-gàat-sà-yaan)
- Turkish: uçak gemisi (tr)
- Ukrainian: авіано́сець (uk) m (avianósecʹ)
- Vietnamese: tàu sân bay (vi); hàng không mẫu hạm (vi) (obsolete)
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