carvel

Meaning of carvel

noun

a small, fast Spanish or Portuguese sailing ship of the 15th–17th centuries.

early 16th century: from French caravelle, from Portuguese caravela, diminutive of caravo, via Latin from Greek karabos ‘horned beetle’ or ‘light ship’.

Information about carvel

  • It is a name.
  • The plural form of carvel is: carvels.
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Hyphenation of carvel

carvel

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 6 chars.
  • carvel is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

Anagrams of carvel

calver, claver

Words that rhyme with carvel

Harvel, Marvel, amarvel, arvel, barvel, emmarvel, manarvel, marvel, varvel, vervel, wervel

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