单词 | admiral |
释义 | admiral[ ad-mer-uhl ] / ˈæd mər əl / SEE SYNONYMS FOR admiral ON THESAURUS.COM nounthe commander in chief of a fleet. a naval officer of the highest rank. a naval officer of a high rank: the grades in the U.S. Navy are fleet admiral, admiral, vice-admiral, and rear admiral. Obsolete. the flagship of an admiral. British. a master who directs a fishing fleet. any of several often brightly colored butterflies of the family Nymphalidae, as Vanessa atalanta(red admiral ). Origin of admiral1175–1225; Middle English, variant of amiral<Old French <Arabic amīr al commander of the; -d-<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 OTHER WORDS FROM admiralad·mi·ral·ship, nounWords nearby admiraladministrative segregation, administrator, administratrix, admirable, admirable bolete, admiral, Admiral of the Fleet, admiralty, Admiralty Board, admiralty cloth, Admiralty House Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for admiralBritish Dictionary definitions for admiraladmiral / (ˈædmərəl) / nounthe 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 flagSee also rear admiral, vice admiral mainly British the master of a fishing fleet any of various nymphalid butterflies, esp the red admiral or white admiral Derived forms of admiraladmiralship, nounWord Origin for admiralC13: 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 sea 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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