porta-aviões

Portuguese

Etymology

porta (“it carries”, verb) +‎ avião (“airplane”, noun)

Noun

porta-aviões m (plural porta-aviões)

  1. aircraft carrier (warship for launching aircraft)
    • 2017 April 24, João Ruela Ribeiro, “Coreia do Norte ameaça afundar porta-aviões norte-americano”, in Público‎:
      A Coreia do Norte garantiu estar preparada para responder ao que entende ser uma provocação dos seus rivais. “As nossas forças revolucionárias estão preparadas militarmente para afundar o porta-aviões nuclear dos EUA com apenas um ataque”, escreveu o Rodong Sinmun, o jornal oficial do Partido dos Trabalhadores da Coreia.
      North Korea has assured that they are prepared to respond to what it considers a provocation by its enemies. Radong Sinmun, the official newspaper of the Workers’ Party of Korea, published that “our revolutionary forces are militarily prepared to sink the US’s nuclear aircraft carrier with a single attack”.
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