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ADMIRAL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of several brightly colored butterflies
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("admiral" is a kind of...):
brush-footed butterfly; four-footed butterfly; nymphalid; nymphalid butterfly (medium to large butterflies found worldwide typically having brightly colored wings and much-reduced nonfunctional forelegs carried folded on the breast)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The supreme commander of a fleet; ranks above a vice admiral and below a fleet admiral
Synonyms:
admiral; full admiral
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("admiral" is a kind of...):
flag officer (a senior naval officer above the rank of captain)
Instance hyponyms:
Bligh; Captain Bligh; William Bligh (British admiral; was captain of the H.M.S. Bounty in 1789 when part of the crew mutinied and set him afloat in an open boat; a few weeks later he arrived safely in Timor 4,000 miles away (1754-1817))
Drake; Francis Drake; Sir Francis Drake (English explorer and admiral who was the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe and who helped to defeat the Spanish Armada (1540-1596))
Admiral Nelson; Horatio Nelson; Lord Nelson; Nelson; Viscount Nelson (English admiral who defeated the French fleets of Napoleon but was mortally wounded at Trafalgar (1758-1805))
Isoroku Yamamoto; Yamamoto (Japanese admiral who planned the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 (1884-1943))
Context examples:
For two days the Hon. Philip Green (he was, I may mention, the son of the famous admiral of that name who commanded the Sea of Azof fleet in the Crimean War) brought us no news.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
His original reasons I know not; but his hatred is increased since your great success against Blefuscu, by which his glory as admiral is much obscured.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Admiral Nelson can get his ships manned.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
An admiral speaks his own consequence, and, at the same time, can never make a baronet look small.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
Your uncle, and his brother admirals, perhaps knew little of clergymen beyond the chaplains whom, good or bad, they were always wishing away.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
I was so curious to know the truth of this story, that I desired Agrippa might be called, who was admiral in that fight.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
It chanced that I came through, and here I am flying my admiral’s flag; but I remember many a man as good as me who did not come through.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Mr Shepherd answered for his being of a gentleman's family, and mentioned a place; and Anne, after the little pause which followed, added—He is a rear admiral of the white.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
It is no reflection on you; it is no more than what the greatest admirals have all experienced, more or less, in their time.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
The treasurer and admiral insisted that you should be put to the most painful and ignominious death, by setting fire to your house at night, and the general was to attend with twenty thousand men, armed with poisoned arrows, to shoot you on the face and hands.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
