full admiral

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsadmiral

   Broaderflag officer

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Questions about full admiral

What does full admiral mean?

full admiral means "the supreme commander of a fleet; ranks above a vice admiral and below a fleet admiral".

What is another word for full admiral?

Close synonyms include 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 full admiral a common word?

full 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.