Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The office or position of an admiral.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The office or position oaf an admiral; also, the naval skill of an admiral.
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- noun The state, property, or office of being an
admiral .
Etymologies
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Examples
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But Ah Chun's word went forth, as a whisper, and Captain Higginson forgot his rear-admiralship and his high family and took to wife three hundred thousand dollars and a refined and cultured girl who was one thirty-second Polynesian, one-sixteenth Italian, one - sixteenth Portuguese, eleven thirty-seconds English and Yankee, and one-half Chinese.
Chun Ah Chun 2010
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McCain never mentioned the alleged offer of an admiralship by Lehman in any of his books, nor in the numerous interviews McCain gave during his first run for the presidency in 1999-2000.
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The promptness of young Tordenskiold was not forgotten, and he speedily rose to the high admiralship of
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 333, September 27, 1828 Various
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But Ah Chun's word went forth, as a whisper, and Captain Higginson forgot his rear-admiralship and his high family and took to wife three hundred thousand dollars and a refined and cultured girl who was one thirty-second Polynesian, one-sixteenth Italian, one-sixteenth
Chun Ah Chun 1912
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When the storm burst, Captain Mercer suddenly promoted himself to an admiralship and assumed command of his little fleet.
The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson 1905
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But Ah Chun's word went forth, as a whisper, and Captain Higginson forgot his rear-admiralship and his high family and took to wife three hundred thousand dollars and a refined and cultured girl who was one thirty-second Polynesian, one-sixteenth Italian, one-sixteenth
The House of Pride, and Other Tales of Hawaii Jack London 1896
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Having left France as a captain, he came back a rear-admiral; and immediately after his return the king created a fourth vice-admiralship, a special post to be filled by Suffren, and to lapse at his death.
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As two men in military attire were instantly admitted, I thought this a little hard upon a man who had travelled so far to see his admiralship, and, accordingly, hinted my indignation to Mr. Muscotofsky, my interpreter.
Devereux — Volume 05 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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Disgust and edacity; laziness that cannot rest; futile ambition, revenge, non-admiralship: -- O, within that carbuncled skin what a confusion of confusions sits bottled!
The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838
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As two men in military attire were instantly admitted, I thought this a little hard upon a man who had travelled so far to see his admiralship, and, accordingly, hinted my indignation to Mr. Muscotofsky, my interpreter.
Devereux — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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