aircraft carrier

noun

a warship equipped with a large open deck for the taking off and landing of warplanes and with facilities to carry, service, and arm them.

Origin

1915-20

Examples from the web for aircraft carrier

His experience includes strategic direction of large, complex organizations such as the naval aircraft carrier program.
The accident occurred in routine maintenance on the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, which is in dry dock.
Yet in space they could support the weight of an aircraft carrier.
He lives alone in a house in mid-city that is dominated by a piano the size of an aircraft carrier.
From the outside, she resembles a small aircraft carrier, though she lacks the catapult for throwing planes into the air.
It's won't fool you into thinking it's a hummingbird and it won't ever land on an aircraft carrier.
The military should be able to move the system on a semitruck or an aircraft carrier, he says.
One was about a half mile off the port side of the aircraft carrier and was really loud and shook the whole ship.
The capital ship was an aircraft carrier stuck on a flat ocean, and their fighters were navy planes in atmosphere.
Surface action groups are naval strike groups that do not contain an aircraft carrier.

British Dictionary definitions for aircraft carrier

noun

a warship built with an extensive flat deck space for the launch and recovery of aircraft