ADMIRAL Synonyms: 15 Similar and Opposite Words

admiral

noun

Definition of admiral

as in commander

a high-ranking officer in the navy

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Recent Examples of admiral James Stavridis, a retired US Navy admiral who had sailed through the Strait of Hormuz many times, agreed. — Brad Lendon, CNN Money, 9 July 2026 Village People singer dies at 74 Willis was known for often performing with Village People in costume as a Navy admiral or police officer. — Melina Khan, USA Today, 1 July 2026 For the admiral, this has always been a revenge mission against the Sea Snake, the man who has ruled the Narrow and Summer Seas for far too long, killing her friends along the way. — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 22 June 2026 The Front Page Highlights A Black admiral fixed one of the Navy’s worst messes. — Kate Kelly Vincent Alban Paulina Villegas Kurt Streeter, New York Times, 21 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for admiral

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Noun

His name is Ernst Kaltenbrunner, an SS general who two weeks earlier was named commander-in-chief of all German forces in southern Europe.

— Danielle Parker, CBS News, 28 Aug. 2026
When the ethnic war in Bosnia started in 1992, Mladic became the commander of the Bosnian Serb troops and took control of large swaths of the country to form a Serb mini-state.

— Jovana Gec, Los Angeles Times, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of commander

Noun

The coast guard command will be led by a commodore and backed up by an unspecified number of personnel, patrol ships and aircraft for law enforcement, monitoring, environmental protection and search and rescue.

— Jim Gomez, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2026
In 2019, club members suspected Stellato of $20,000 worth of embezzlement and relieved him of his rear commodore position, according to court records.

— Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 5 Feb. 2026

Definition of commodore

Noun

Vuskovic partnered long-serving skipper Lewis Dunk on his 300th Premier League appearance for the club — the first Brighton player to reach that landmark.

— Andy Naylor, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2026
Replay showed the skipper taking mild exception to a low, first-pitch strike call on García with two out, but Carapazza, following a handful of ABS challenges earlier in the game, gave Boone a quick hook nonetheless.

— Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 15 Aug. 2026

Definition of skipper

Noun

During the surge, the most important of these turned out to be those founded during the upheaval that followed George Floyd’s murder, when residents gathered in nearby parks to organize block associations led by captains.

— Emily Witt, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2026
Each jet had three senior captains onboard, Airlink said, operating in the roles of a commander, a co-pilot and a safety officer.

— Michelle Gumede, Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2026

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