admiralty

1. 1.

   the department in charge of the navy (as in Great Britain)

   Broadergovernment department

   United Kingdom

2. 2.

   the office of admiral

   Broaderposition

Other forms of admiralty

plural

admiralties·

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 admiralty

What does admiralty mean?

admiralty means "the department in charge of the navy (as in Great Britain)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in admiralty?

admiralty has 4 syllables: ad-mi-ral-ty. The stress falls on "ad". In IPA it is /ˈædmɚəlti/.

Is admiralty a common word?

admiralty is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.