FULL ADMIRAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does full admiral mean? 

• FULL ADMIRAL (noun)
  The noun FULL ADMIRAL has 1 sense:

1. the supreme commander of a fleet; ranks above a vice admiral and below a fleet admiral

  Familiarity information: FULL ADMIRAL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FULL ADMIRAL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The supreme commander of a fleet; ranks above a vice admiral and below a fleet admiral

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

admiral; full admiral

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))