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admiral Definition


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admiral
noun
    1. A high-ranking officer in the navy.
    2. A name applied to several species of butterfly.
      Example: red admiral
Etymology: 15c in this sense; 13c, meaning ‘Saracen ruler': from French amiral, from Arabic amir-al-bahr lord of the sea.



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