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Webster 1828 Edition


Flotilla

FLOTIL'LA

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Noun.
[dim. of flota.] A little fleet, or fleet of small vessels.

Definition 2024


flotilla

flotilla

English

Noun

flotilla (plural flotillas)

  1. (nautical) A small fleet of warships (usually of the same class), or a fleet of small ships.
    • 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 102:
      Toward the horizon a flotilla of fishing-boats showed immutable, pink-lacquered by the evening sun.

Translations


Spanish

Noun

flotilla f (plural flotillas)

  1. fleet