admiral

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsfull admiral

   Broaderflag officer

   NarrowerBlighDrakeNelsonYamamoto
2. 2.

   any of several brightly colored butterflies

   Broadernymphalid

Other forms of admiral

plural

admirals·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about admiral

What does admiral mean?

admiral means "the supreme commander of a fleet; ranks above a vice admiral and below a fleet admiral". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in admiral?

admiral has 3 syllables: ad-mi-ral. The stress falls on "ad". In IPA it is /ˈædmɚəl/.

What is another word for admiral?

Close synonyms include full admiral. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is admiral a common word?

admiral is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.