Dreadnought
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Dreadnought may refer to:
- Literally, the term "Fear(s)/ing nothing"
- Battleships were called Dreadnoughts, following the launch of the HMS Dreadnought in 1906
- HMS Dreadnought, the name of several warships of the Royal Navy
- Dreadnought steel-string acoustic guitar, a large-bodied guitar originally invented by C.F. Martin & Company
- Some types of trams in the British Empire, particularly those built just after the introduction of HMS Dreadnought
- KV-2 Soviet heavy artillery tank, called "Dreadnought" by its crews[citation needed]
- Some types of UK railway carriages, such as those built by the Metropolitan Railway between 1910 and 1923, and also to a separate design, by the Great Western Railway, named Dreadnought because they were significantly larger than their predecessors
[edit] Dreadnought in media (books, films, etc.)
- Workers' Dreadnought, a newspaper of the suffragettes
- Dreadnought (book), a book by Robert K. Massie
- "Dreadnought (Voyager episode)", an episode in the second season of Star Trek: Voyager
- Dreadnought (comics), a villainous robot featured in Marvel Comics' Iron Man series
- Dreadnaught USA, award-winning U.S.-based rock performance/recording artists and house band for Writers On A New England Stage (featuring John Updike, Alan Alda, Dan Brown, and Mitch Albom)
- Dreadnaught (heavy metal band), based in Melbourne, Australia
- Dreadnaught (film), a 1981 Hong Kong kungfu film directed by Yuen Woo-ping
- the main ship used by the Scarrans species in the Farscape science fiction television series
- Dreadnaught-class heavy cruiser, a type of starship in the Star Wars universe
[edit] Dreadnought in games
- Dreadnought (Warhammer 40,000) space marine walking vehicle in Warhammer 40,000 universe
- The imperial airship (List of Final Fantasy airships) used as a weapon in the game Final Fantasy II
- Phyrexian Dreadnought, an artifact creature from the card game Magic: The Gathering
- A heavy Soviet battleship capable of firing devastating long range missiles in the Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 PC game
- The Dreadnaught Factor, an Activision game for Atari 5200 and Mattel Intellivision
- Dreadnaughts, the most powerful controllable Somtaww vessels in the game Homeworld: Cataclysm
- Dreadnaughts, the two second-most powerful battleships created by the Progenitors as the gatekeepers of Sajuuk, in the game Homeworld 2
- Dreadnought Leviathan, an airship (Final Fantasy) in Final Fantasy XII
- Dreadnoughts are the third largest capital ships in Eve Online, after titans and motherships
- Dreadnaught is the Tier 3 Warrior Set in the World of Warcraft