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admiral

[ ad-mer-uhl ]

noun

  1. the commander in chief of a fleet.
  2. a naval officer of the highest rank.
  3. a naval officer of a high rank: the grades in the U.S. Navy are fleet admiral, admiral, vice-admiral, and rear admiral.
  4. Obsolete. the flagship of an admiral.
  5. British. a master who directs a fishing fleet.
  6. any of several often brightly colored butterflies of the family Nymphalidae, as Vanessa atalanta red admiral.


admiral

/ ˈæ»å³¾É™°ùÉ™±ô /

noun

  1. the supreme commander of a fleet or navy
  2. Also calledadmiral of the fleetfleet admiral a naval officer of the highest rank, equivalent to general of the army or field marshal
  3. a senior naval officer entitled to fly his own flag See also rear admiral vice admiral
  4. the master of a fishing fleet
  5. any of various nymphalid butterflies, esp the red admiral or white admiral
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈ²¹»å³¾¾±°ù²¹±ôËŒ²õ³ó¾±±è, noun
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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms

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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of admiral1

1175–1225; Middle English, variant of amiral < Old French < Arabic ²¹³¾Ä«°ù al commander of the; -d- < Medieval Latin ²¹»å³¾Ä«°ùÄå²ú¾±±ô¾±²õ mundÄ« for Arabic ²¹³¾Ä«°ù al-mu'minÄ«n commander of the faithful; or with replacement of a- 5 by ad-, as in administer
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of admiral1

C13: amyral, from Old French amiral emir, and from Medieval Latin ²¹»å³¾Ä«°ùÄå±ô¾±²õ (the spelling with d probably influenced by ²¹»å³¾Ä«°ùÄå²ú¾±±ô¾±²õ admirable); both from Arabic ²¹³¾Ä«°ù emir, commander, esp in the phrase ²¹³¾Ä«°ù-al commander of, as in ²¹³¾Ä«°ù-al-bahr commander of the sea
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Four retirees from the top echelon of the U.S. military, including the admiral who led the raid on Osama bin Laden, have filed a brief that castigates the U.S.

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These commenters were denounced at the time by New Zealand’s defence minister as “armchair admiralsâ€.

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“Any general that was involved, any general, admiral, whatever, that was involved in any of the DEI/woke s— has got to go.â€

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Francis provided investigators with detailed information on hundreds of sailors, from petty officers to admirals.

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New Zealand’s defence minister has criticised "armchair admirals" for suggesting that a female captain’s gender was to blame for the sinking of one of the nation's naval ships.

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