rear admiral

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   an admiral junior to a vice admiral

   Broaderflag officer

Questions about rear admiral

What does rear admiral mean?

rear admiral means "an admiral junior to a vice admiral".

Is rear admiral a common word?

rear 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.