rear admiral

rear admiral

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Noun

rear admiral (plural rear admirals)

1. (military, nautical) A naval officer below the rank of vice admiral, originally in charge of a fleet's rear formation.
2. (slang) A proctologist.

Synonyms

• (naval, abbreviation): RADM, RAdm

Derived terms

• rear admiral (lower half)
• rear admiral (upper half)

Translations

naval officer below the rank of vice admiral

Bulgarian: контраадмирал m (kontraadmiral) Chinese: Mandarin: 海軍少將／海军少将 (hǎijūn shàojiàng) Czech: kontradmirál (cs) m Dutch: schout-bij-nacht (nl) m Finnish: kontra-amiraali (fi) French: contre-amiral (fr) m German: Konteradmiral (de) m Greek: υποναύαρχος (el) m (yponávarchos) Italian: contrammiraglio m Romanian: contraamiral (ro) m Russian: контр-адмира́л (ru) m (kontr-admirál) Spanish: contraalmirante m or f Swedish: konteramiral c

proctologist — see proctologist

Further reading

• rear admiral on Wikipedia.Wikipedia