From flag + ship.
flagship (plural flagships)
- (nautical, military) The ship occupied by the fleet's commander (usually an admiral); it denotes this by flying his flag.
2022 April 21, Neil MacFarquhar, Alina Lobzina, “With sunken warship, Russian disinformation faces a test.”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN:After Russia’s flagship in the Black Sea, the Moskva, sank last week, the authorities said that the entire crew of more than 500 had been rescued.
- (nautical) The ship regarded as most important out of a group, e.g. a nation's navy or company's fleet.
- (by extension, often attributive) The most important one out of a related group.
- Synonyms: chief, primary, principal, showcase
The retail company's store in London is their flagship.
2015 October 20, Stuart Dredge, “Google Nexus 5X and Nexus 6P review roundup: impressive Android flagships”, in The Guardian[2]:Ars Technica’s Ron Amadeo considered the two smartphones together, and claimed them worthy flagships for Android: […]
2017 October 2, Jess Cartner-Morle, “Stella McCartney lays waste to disposable fashion in Paris”, in The Guardian[3]:Next year, Stella McCartney’s London flagship store will move from Bruton Street to a landmark Old Bond Street location. The move is the most prominent symbol of the label’s strong financial results.
2022 January 12, Paul Stephen, “Network News: Vere admits to Lords: IRP lacks information”, in RAIL, number 948, page 10:Transport Minister Baroness Vere has conceded that the Government does not yet know how its flagship £96 billion Integrated Rail Plan "will actually work on the ground".
ship occupied by the fleet's commander
- Albanian: please add this translation if you can
- Arabic: سَفِينَةُ الْقَائِد f (safīnatu l-qāʔid), سَفِينَةُ الْقِيَادَة f (safīnatu l-qiyāda)
- Armenian: ֆլագմանական նավ (flagmanakan nav), ֆլագման (hy) (flagman)
- Belarusian: фла́гманскі карабе́ль m (fláhmanski karabjélʹ), фла́гман m (fláhman)
- Bulgarian: фла́гмански ко́раб m (flágmanski kórab), фла́гман m (flágman)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 旗艦/旗舰 (zh) (qíjiàn)
- Czech: vlajková loď (cs) f
- Danish: flagskib n
- Dutch: vlaggenschip (nl) n
- Esperanto: ĉefŝipo
- Estonian: lipulaev (et)
- Finnish: lippulaiva (fi)
- French: navire amiral (fr) m, bateau amiral (fr) m, vaisseau amiral (fr) m
- Georgian: საფლანგო ხომალდი (saplango xomaldi), ფლაგმანი (ka) (plagmani)
- German: Flaggschiff (de) n
- Greek:
- Ancient: στρατηγίς ναῦς f (stratēgís naûs)
- Modern: ναυαρχίδα (el) f (navarchída)
- Hebrew: אוניית דגל
- Hungarian: zászlóshajó (hu)
- Icelandic: flaggskip n
- Irish: bratlong f
- Italian: nave ammiraglia f, ammiraglia (it) f, principale (it)
- Japanese: 旗艦 (ja) (きかん, kikan)
- Kazakh: флагман (flagman)
- Korean: 기함(旗艦) (ko) (giham)
- Kyrgyz: флагман (flagman)
- Latvian: admirāļa kuģis m, flagmanis m
- Lithuanian: flagmanas (lt) m
- Low German:
- German Low German: Flaggschipp n
- Norman: amitha m
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: flaggskip n
- Nynorsk: flaggskip n
- Polish: okręt flagowy m
- Portuguese: navio-almirante (pt) m, capitânia (pt) m or f, nau capitânia f
- Romanian: navă-amiral f
- Russian: фла́гманский кора́бль m (flágmanskij koráblʹ), фла́гман (ru) m (flágman)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: адмиралски брод m
- Roman: admiralski brod
- Slovak: vlajková loď f
- Slovene: poveljniška ladja f
- Spanish: buque insignia m, capitana f, nave capitana f, buque almirante m
- Swedish: flaggskepp (sv) n
- Turkish: amiral gemisi (tr), bayrak gemisi (tr)
- Ukrainian: фла́гманський корабе́ль m (fláhmansʹkyj korabélʹ), фла́гман m (fláhman)
- Vietnamese: soái hạm (vi)
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flagship (third-person singular simple present flagships, present participle flagshipping, simple past and past participle flagshipped)
- To act as a flagship for.