flotilla
(noun) a fleet of small craft
flotilla
(noun) a United States Navy fleet consisting of two or more squadrons of small warships
Source: WordNet® 3.1
flotilla (plural flotillas)
(nautical) A small fleet of warships (usually of the same class), or a fleet of small ships.
Source: Wiktionary
Flo*til"la, n. Etym: [Sp. flotilla, dim. of flota fleet; akin to F. flotte, It. flotta, and F. flot wave, fr. L. fluctus, but prob. influenced by words akin to E. float. See Fluctuate, and cf. Float, n.]
Definition: A little fleet, or a fleet of small vessels.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
8 November 2024
(noun) the act of furnishing an equivalent person or thing in the place of another; “replacing the star will not be easy”
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
