Definitions for corvette

corvette cor·vette

Spelling: [kawr-vet]
IPA: /kɔrˈvɛt/

Corvette is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 153 anagrams from letters in corvette (ceeorttv).

Definitions for corvette

noun

  1. a warship of the old sailing class, having a flush deck and usually one tier of guns.
  2. a lightly armed, fast ship used mostly for convoy escort and ranging in size between a destroyer and a gunboat.

Origin of corvette

1630-40; French, Middle French Middle Dutch corver pursuit boat (derivative of corf fishing boat, literally, basket), with suffix altered to -ette -ette

Examples for corvette

If you like you can return to Lisbon in the corvette; you will be there before us.'

Martinez is currently working on scoring a commercial for the 2014 corvette.

Soon came whispers about a Russian corvette being spotted at Balaclava Bay.

He even got his corvette back, albeit several months after the raid and, he says, with the tires worn down.

The latter began firing as soon as her guns could reach the corvette.

When my brother was here in the corvette, he found her for me.

When I drive my corvette I see the looks it gets from all the people that have children.

He hoped to do something before the corvette had to return home.

The document was an order to take the acting command of the corvette.

In 1983, August Busch IV, then a 19-year-old student at the University of Arizona in 1983, crashed his corvette.

Word Value for corvette
Scrable

13

Words with friends

15

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