(navies)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
A country’s ~ consists of the people it employs to fight at sea, and the ships they use.
Her own son was also in the Navy.
...a United States ~ ship.
N-COUNT: usu the N
2.
Something that is ~ or ~-blue is very dark blue.
I mostly wore black or ~ trousers.
...a ~-blue blazer.
COLOUR