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REAR ADMIRAL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does rear admiral mean?
• REAR ADMIRAL (noun)
The noun REAR ADMIRAL has 1 sense:
1. an admiral junior to a vice admiral
Familiarity information: REAR ADMIRAL used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An admiral junior to a vice admiral
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("rear admiral" is a kind of...):
flag officer (a senior naval officer above the rank of captain)
Context examples
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)
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