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Definition of Admirals
1. admiral [n] - See also: admiral
Lexicographical Neighbors of Admirals
Literary usage of Admirals
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke (1831)
"admirals of the Blue, sir J. Wells, sir G. Martin, sir WS Smith, T. Sotheby,
csq., sir II. Nicholls, sir H. Sawyer, sir I). Gould, sir KG Keats, ..."
2. Annual Register edited by Edmund Burke (1847)
"admirals of the Blue; fortyfour Commanders, to be Captains; eighty Lieutenants,
to be Commanders; twenty Mates, to be Lieutenants; twenty Second Masters, ..."
3. The Invasion of the Crimea: Its Origin and an Account of Its Progress Down by Alexander William Kinglake (1868)
"Joint letter of Can. robert and Lord Raglan to the admirals. The plan of the
naval at- ammunition was limited to 70 rounds for each gun,* they submitted it ..."
4. The Speeches of the Right Honourable Charles James Fox, in the House of by Charles James Fox (1815)
"CONDUCT OF THE ADMIRALTY RELATIVE TO THE PROMOTION OF admirals. April 18. BY an
order of council, dated in the year 1718, and addressed to the lords ..."