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admiral
  1. A naval officer of the highest rank; the commander of a country's naval forces.
  2. A naval officer of high rank, immediately below Admiral of the Fleet; the commander of a fleet or squadron.
  3. A flag officer in the United States Navy or Coast Guard of a grade superior to vice admiral and junior to admiral of the fleet (when that grade is used). An admiral is equal in grade or rank to a four star general.
  4. The ship which carries the admiral, the flagship; also, the most considerable ship of a fleet.
  5. (obsolete) A prince or Saracen leader under the Sultan.
  6. Any of various nymphalid butterflies of Europe and America, especially a red admiral or white admiral.
  7. Synonyms:
  8. Examples:
    1. “Hideaki Kaneda, a retired vice admiral in Japan's Self Defense Forces, is director of the Okazaki Institute.”
      “The Mexican government apologized, but this wasn't good enough for the admiral commanding the local U.S. naval squadron.”
      “Named after the admiral of the fleet, it was inevitable it would have a naval theme.”
admiralty
  1. (military) The office or jurisdiction of an admiral.
  2. (military) The department or officers having authority over naval affairs generally.
  3. (law) The court which has jurisdiction of maritime questions and offenses.
  4. (law) The system of jurisprudence of admiralty courts.
  5. (military) The building in which the lords of the admiralty, in England, transact business.
  6. Examples:
    1. “Equally disturbing to many, Parliament routed execution of these new laws through admiralty courts, where a judge would preside.”
      “This general rule of construction should especially guide a court of admiralty in interpreting a contract of bottomry and respondentia.”
      “So the very purpose of proceedings within the admiralty jurisdiction is in respect of a general maritime cause which includes the provision of security.”
admiraless
  1. (rare) A female admiral.
  2. (rare) The wife of an admiral.
admiralship
  1. The state, property, or office of being an admiral.
admiralcy
  1. The rank of admiral.
admiralships
  1. plural of admiralship
admiralesses
  1. plural of admiraless
admiralcies
  1. plural of admiralcy
admiralties
  1. plural of admiralty
  2. Examples:
    1. “There was malversation in the admiralties and in the military administration.”
      “The five Dutch admiralties hired any large armed merchant ship they could find.”
      “At King William Island, in the Admiralties, Kwaque had made, in the parlance of the South Pacific, a pier-head jump.”
admirals
  1. plural of admiral
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Who makes up and then runs current innovation efforts, lieutenants or admirals?”
      “There, a friend showed me a shady river bed where literally dozens of southern white admirals were drinking.”
      “Did Japanese warships and their commanding admirals break radio silence at sea before the attack?”
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