large cruiser
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.51 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The official US Navy designation for the Alaska-class cruisers, which were in commission from mid-1944 to early-1947 and were scrapped in the early 1960s.
Example Sentences
- "US Navy hull classification symbol: CB"
Etymology
Inflected Forms
large cruisers (plural)