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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024ad•mi•ral /ˈædmərəl/USA pronunciation n. [countable]- Naval Termsthe commander in chief of a naval fleet.
ad•mi•ral•ship, n. [uncountable] WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024ad•mi•ral (ad′mər əl),USA pronunciation n. - Naval Termsthe commander in chief of a fleet.
- Naval Terms, Militarya naval officer of the highest rank.
- Naval Terms, Militarya naval officer of a high rank: the grades in the U.S. Navy are fleet admiral, admiral, vice-admiral, and rear admiral.
- Naval Terms[Obs.]the flagship of an admiral.
- British Termsa master who directs a fishing fleet.
- Insectsany of several often brightly colored butterflies of the family Nymphalidae, as Vanessa atalanta (red admiral.)
- Medieval Latin admīrābilis mundī for Arabic amīr al-mu'minīn commander of the faithful; or with replacement of a-5 by ad-, as in administer
- Arabic amīr al commander of the; -d-
- Old French
- Middle English, variant of amiral 1175–1225
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: admiral /ˈædmərəl/ n - the supreme commander of a fleet or navy
- Also called: admiral of the fleet, fleet admiral a naval officer of the highest rank, equivalent to general of the army or field marshal
- a senior naval officer entitled to fly his own flag
See also rear admiral, vice admiral - chiefly Brit the master of a fishing fleet
- any of various nymphalid butterflies, esp the red admiral or white admiral
Etymology: 13th Century: amyral, from Old French amiral emir, and from Medieval Latin admīrālis (the spelling with d probably influenced by admīrābilis admirable); both from Arabic amīr emir, commander, esp in the phrase amīr-al commander of, as in amīr-al-bahr commander of the seaˈadmiralˌship n |