空母(くうぼ)

くうぼ
noun
aircraft carrier
1. aircraft carrier
A large warship designed to serve as a mobile airbase, carrying and launching military aircraft. An abbreviation of 航空母艦(こうくうぼかん).
空母(くうぼ)から戦闘機(せんとうき)が発進(はっしん)した。
Fighter jets launched from the aircraft carrier.
空母(くうぼ)は海軍(かいぐん)の主力(しゅりょく)だ。
Aircraft carriers are the mainstay of the navy.
新型(しんがた)の空母(くうぼ)が太平洋(たいへいよう)に配備(はいび)されたというニュースが流(なが)れた。
News broke that a new aircraft carrier had been deployed to the Pacific.

ETYMOLOGY:
Abbreviation of 航空母艦(こうくうぼかん) (aviation mother ship). The full form is still used in formal or historical contexts, but 空母(くうぼ) is the standard everyday term.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS:

  • 原子力(げんしりょく)空母(くうぼ) (nuclear aircraft carrier)
  • 空母(くうぼ)打撃群(だげきぐん) (carrier strike group)
  • 空母(くうぼ)を建造(けんぞう)する (to build an aircraft carrier)

SIMILAR WORDS:

  • 航空母艦(こうくうぼかん): aircraft carrier (full, formal term)
  • 護衛艦(ごえいかん): escort ship, destroyer (Japan's Maritime Self-Defense Force term)
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