"admiral" | Definition and Related Words

Noun

The supreme commander of a fleet;
Ranks above a vice admiral and below a fleet admiral (synset 109790627)
is a type of: flag officer - a senior naval officer above the rank of captain
specific instances:
- bligh, captain bligh, william bligh - British admiral; was captain of the H.M.S. Bounty in 1789 when part of the crew mutinied and set him afloat in an open boat; a few weeks later he arrived safely in Timor 4,000 miles away (1754-1817)
- drake, francis drake, sir francis drake - English explorer and admiral who was the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe and who helped to defeat the Spanish Armada (1540-1596)
- admiral nelson, horatio nelson, lord nelson, nelson, viscount nelson - English admiral who defeated the French fleets of Napoleon but was mortally wounded at Trafalgar (1758-1805)
- isoroku yamamoto, yamamoto - Japanese admiral who planned the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 (1884-1943)
same as: full admiral
Any of several brightly colored butterflies (synset 102278910)
is a type of: brush-footed butterfly, four-footed butterfly, nymphalid, nymphalid butterfly - medium to large butterflies found worldwide typically having brightly colored wings and much-reduced nonfunctional forelegs carried folded on the breast