Definitions for Admiral

Admiral ad·mi·ral

Spelling: [ad-mer-uh l]
IPA: /ˈæd mər əl/

Admiral is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 180 anagrams from letters in Admiral (aadilmr).

Definitions for Admiral

noun

  1. the commander in chief of a fleet.
  2. a naval officer of the highest rank.
  3. a naval officer of a high rank: the grades in the U.S. Navy are fleet admiral, admiral, vice-admiral, and rear admiral.
  4. Obsolete. the flagship of an admiral.
  5. British. a master who directs a fishing fleet.
  6. any of several often brightly colored butterflies of the family Nymphalidae, as Vanessa atalanta (red admiral)

Origin of Admiral

1175-1225; 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 re

Examples for Admiral

admiral Michael Mullen, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, will be among the special guests in attendance.

The admiral told every man, “I just spoke with the President and he plans to thank each of you personally.”

The admiral is coming, and some brother officers who would be pleased to know you.'

Our own doctor being dead, that of the admiral's ship was sent for to visit the sick.

They said, the gentleman who presided, was a Sir Borlase Warren, the admiral on the station.

And then I said, ‘Well, chief, when the admiral comes aboard, the first mate has to pipe him in.’

He used language to make his host, the Navy admiral who was the country's top military officer, blush.

These consisted of a family, of which the head was said to be, or to have been, an admiral in the Dutch navy.

Among the officers who came and spoke to us, was an admiral, Sir Isaac Coffin.

He survived to become an admiral known as the Father of Carrier Aviation.

Word Value for Admiral
Scrable

10

Words with friends

12

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