five-star admiral

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   an admiral of the highest rank

   Synonymsfleet admiral

   Broaderflag officer

Questions about five-star admiral

What does five-star admiral mean?

five-star admiral means "an admiral of the highest rank".

What is another word for five-star admiral?

Close synonyms include fleet 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 five-star admiral a common word?

five-star admiral is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.