any of several brightly colored butterflies

A naval officer of the highest rank; a naval officer of high rank, of which there are different grades. The chief gradations in rank are admiral, vice admiral, and rear admiral. The admiral is the commander in chief of a fleet or of fleets.

The ship which carries the admiral; also, the most considerable ship of a fleet.

A handsome butterfly ( Pyrameis Atalanta) of Europe and America. The larva feeds on nettles.

The chief commander of a fleet; a naval officer of the highest rank.

A naval officer of the highest rank.

A naval officer of the highest rank; the commander- in- chief of a fleet.

The chief commander of a fleet; any flag officer; the ship of the admiral.

A species of shell- fish; also a species of butterfly. The lord high admiral, in Great Britain, an officer who formerly superintended all naval affairs. The admiral of the fleet, a title of honour given to a few admirals. Vice- admiral, an officer next in rank to an admiral. Rear- admiral, an officer next in rank to a vice- admiral.

The commander of a fleet or navy; a flag officer.

A ship- boy, with the day, From the tall mast- head, of the Admiral, Descry'd their aim, and gave the swift alarm. – The Battle of Bunkers-Hill by Hugh Henry Brackenridge

A speaker in Congress at the time said that the British Admiral should certainly hang for this delay. – Washington and his Comrades in Arms A Chronicle of the War of Independence by George Wrong

Where was the admiral? – Poor Jack by Frederick Marryat

Admiral Fakenham's butler refused at first to take a name to his master. – The Amazing Marriage, v3 by George Meredith Edition: 10 Language: English

Monsieur Coasson whispered to the admiral, who said, in consequence, bowing to Euphrosyne- I can answer for this young lady being a welcome guest to Madame Leclerc. – The Hour and the Man An Historical Romance by Harriet Martineau

" You hear the question, Jasper Pennington," said Admiral Trefry; " will you tell what you have been doing these last two months and more?" – The Birthright by Joseph Hocking

" Things are mentioned in confidence, and I put them together," said the Admiral. – Springhaven A Tale of the Great War by R. D. Blackmore

I am awfully sorry, and awfully sorry for his father, the admiral. – A Book of Ghosts by Sabine Baring-Gould

Still, he took her with her Admiral out to the open safely. – Cumner & South Sea Folk, Complete by Gilbert Parker

" Then," said the Admiral, " may I take it that, if an opportunity were to offer for you to enter the King's service, you would accept it?" – The Log of a Privateersman by Harry Collingwood

" No," the admiral shook his head. – Man of Many Minds by E. Everett Evans

Admiral Krusenstern saw, in his voyage round the world, the train of a fire- ball shine for an hour after the lluminous body itself had disappeared, and scarcely move throughout the whole time. – COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 by Alexander von Humboldt

Admiral Sir Isaac Coffin sent out two fine blood- horses, Barefoot and Serab by name, to Massachusetts, something before the time I am talking of. – The Complete PG Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist)

You will be an admiral one of these days. – The Clique of Gold by Emile Gaboriau

" Yet if he asked you," suggested the Admiral, " the world might say that he wanted your money." – The Gay Cockade by Temple Bailey

The captain inquired whether the admiral had made the signal to part company; upon being answered in the negative, he replied, 'I will never desert my admiral in the hour of danger and distress. – Narratives of Shipwrecks of the Royal Navy; between 1793 and 1849 by William O. S. Gilly

Yes, it must be her, said he aloud, so as to be heard by the pirates; she has been sent out by the admiral on purpose, full of his best men. – The Pirate by Frederick Marryat

But the English admiral did not intend to let matters come to a regular naval fight. – A History of England Principally in the Seventeenth Century, Volume I (of 6) by Leopold von Ranke

When the moment for parting came, however, the Queen found it impossible to spare him, and Sir John Burrough was appointed admiral. – Raleigh by Edmund Gosse