airplane carrier

noun

1. an aircraft carrier.

Example Sentences

Albania’s post-World War II communist regime considered it the country’s “airplane carrier, the port of defense, the key to controlling the Otranto Strait,” according to officers from that era.

From Washington Times

Following the moonlit battle, the combined fleets� the U. S. Fleet� steamed northward from Magdelena Bay and came to anchor at San Diego and Coronado Roads� 114 craft, including the airplane carrier Langley and the supply ships.

From Time Magazine Archive

Another of Rickover's projects, a 60,000-kilowatt reactor for an airplane carrier, had a less happy outcome.

From Time Magazine Archive

Said gusty, bearded Admiral William Sowden Sims, 17 years before Pearl Harbor: "An airplane carrier . . . is in reality a capital ship of much greater offensive power than any battleship."

From Time Magazine Archive

Its rules: for every enemy battleship sunk by the U.S., the player buys $5 worth of defense stamps, for an airplane carrier $4, cruiser $3, destroyer $2, submarine $1, any other ship 50�.

From Time Magazine Archive