Synonyms of corvette

corvette

noun

as in yacht

Synonyms & Similar Words

• yacht
• frigate
• sloop
• schooner
• caravel
• catamaran
• sailer
• catboat
• galleon
• brigantine
• cutter
• lugger
• yawl
• keelboat
• ketch
• clipper
• pinnace
• sailboat
• outrigger
• galley
• junk
• bugeye
• sharpie
• shallop
• dinghy
• square-rigger
• knockabout
• piragua
• windjammer
• xebec
• cat rig
• bark
• sharpy
• caïque
• vessel
• craft
• bottom

Examples of corvette in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Two weeks before that, its military intelligence claimed to have sunk the corvette Ivanovets, also off the peninsula’s coast. —Yuliya Talmazan, NBC News, 5 Mar. 2024

Sweden, with its own advanced high-tech defense industry, makes its own excellent fighter planes, naval corvettes and submarines, designed to operate in the difficult environment of the Baltic Sea. —Steven Erlanger, New York Times, 7 Mar. 2024

Ukraine’s sole Su-24 unit, the 7th Tactical Aviation Brigade, single-handedly has blown up or sunk two Black Sea Fleet landing ships, a corvette, an old training ship and—incredibly—the submarine Rostov-on-Don while the sub was in dry-dock in Crimea. —David Axe, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2024

The apparent casualties suffered by the escorting corvettes reinforces the danger Ukraine’s kamikaze boat fleet poses, despite the high attrition rate to defensive fire. —Sébastien Roblin, Popular Mechanics, 3 Aug. 2023