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FULL ADMIRAL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The supreme commander of a fleet; ranks above a vice admiral and below a fleet admiral
Synonyms:
admiral; full admiral
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("full 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))
