Definition of "admiral" []

• The commander in chief of a fleet. (noun)
• A flag officer. (noun)
• A commissioned rank in the U.S. Navy or Coast Guard that is above vice admiral and below Admiral of the Fleet. (noun)
• One who holds the rank of admiral, Admiral of the Fleet, rear admiral, or vice admiral. (noun)
• Any of various brightly colored butterflies of the genera Limenitis and Vanessa. (noun)

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• "He is an admiral, do you understand, an _admiral_! ""
• "The team, led by a four-star admiral, is on three days, off seven."
• "What Winston Churchill once wrote about a certain German admiral seems apposite here: "He was like a cut flower in a vase; fair to see, yet bound to die, and to die very soon if the water was not constantly renewed.""