rear admiral

noun

A naval officer below the rank of vice admiral, originally in charge of a fleet's rear formation.

Similar
RADM
Ask AI about this wordChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

Meanings

nounrear admiral (plural rear admirals)

plural rear admirals

  1. governmentA naval officer below the rank of vice admiral, originally in charge of a fleet's rear formation.

    Synonyms: RADM, RAdm

  2. humorousslangA proctologist.

Synonyms & antonyms

nounA naval officer below the rank of vice admiral, originally in charge of a fleet's rear formation.

Similar
RADMRAdm
Also see
commodore admiralproctologistrear admiral (upper half)

Translations

Afrikaans skout admiraal
  • skout admiraalnaval officer below the rank of vice admiral
Bulgarian контраадмирал
  • контраадмирал (kontraadmiral)naval officer below the rank of vice admiral
Catalan contraalmirall
  • contraalmirallnaval officer below the rank of vice admiral
Chinese Mandarin 海軍少將 /海军少将
  • 海軍少將 /海军少将 (hǎijūn shàojiàng)naval officer below the rank of vice admiral
Czech kontradmirál
  • kontradmirálnaval officer below the rank of vice admiral
Dutch schout-bij-nacht
  • schout-bij-nachtnaval officer below the rank of vice admiral
Finnish kontra-amiraali
  • kontra-amiraalinaval officer below the rank of vice admiral
French contre-amiral
  • contre-amiralnaval officer below the rank of vice admiral
German Konteradmiral
  • Konteradmiralnaval officer below the rank of vice admiral
Greek υποναύαρχος
  • υποναύαρχος (yponávarchos)naval officer below the rank of vice admiral
Hungarian ellentengernagy
  • ellentengernagynaval officer below the rank of vice admiral
Indonesian laksamana muda
  • laksamana mudanaval officer below the rank of vice admiral
Italian contrammiraglio
  • contrammiraglionaval officer below the rank of vice admiral
Romanian contraamiral
  • contraamiralnaval officer below the rank of vice admiral
Russian контр-адмира́л
  • контр-адмира́л (kontr-admirál)naval officer below the rank of vice admiral
Spanish contraalmirante
  • contraalmirantenaval officer below the rank of vice admiral
Swedish konteramiral
  • konteramiralnaval officer below the rank of vice admiral
Vietnamese chuẩn đô đốc
  • chuẩn đô đốcnaval officer below the rank of vice admiral
Cite this entry
APA

rear admiral. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/rear%20admiral

MLA

“rear admiral.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/rear%20admiral. Accessed November 5, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “rear admiral,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/rear%20admiral.

Source: rear admiral on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.