rear admiral

English

Pronunciation

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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