Noun: frigate
| Singular | frigate |
| Plural | frigates |
Sample Sentences
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Frigates are light escort and scouting vessels. They often have extensive GARDIAN systems to provide anti-fighter screening for capital ships, and carry a squad of marines for security and groundside duty. Unlike larger vessels, frigates are able to land on planets. [2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Starships: Frigates Codex entry:]
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These frigates are all so lazy, that they perch by day on the trees, at the edge of the sea, awaiting the other birds […] [2008, Anthony S. Cheke, Julian Pender Hume, Lost Land of the Dodo:]
Nouns inflected like frigate
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From French frégate, from Italian fregata, of uncertain origin. See: French Nouns '
frégate', Italian Nouns '
fregata'.