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pre-dreadnought

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pre-dreadnought

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noun pre-dreadnoughts · predreadnought

  1. historical A late-19th-century or early-20th-century battleship with a small number of big guns (typically no more than four) and a large number of quick-firing medium-caliber guns. It was made largely obsolete in 1906 by the dreadnought type of battleship.

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noun late-19th or early-20th-century battleship

Русскийдодредно́ут dodrednóut
עבריתקְדַם דְּרֶדְנוֹט kdam drednot

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@misc{pre_dreadnought_2026,
  title = {pre-dreadnought},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/pre-dreadnought},
  urldate = {2026-11-07}
}