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n. (rear admiral English)
Usage examples of "rear admirals".
But where brigadier generals wear only one star, rear admirals (lower half) wear two silver stars, as do rear admirals (upper half) and major generals.
All Rear Admirals, however, wear the same two stars that Major Generals wear.
Then he followed the rear admirals gaze to the woman on whom it rested.
By contrast, the Imperial Fleet sailed under the great Fleet Admiral Yamamoto himself, flanked by five vice admirals and thirteen rear admirals.
A vice admiral, two rear admirals, and an up-and-coming CIA field officer now depended on this young Marine to make the final decision.
Alice Truman, on the other hand, was the daughter of a vice admiral, the granddaughter of a captain and a rear admiral, and the great-granddaughter of a commodore, two rear admirals, and a first space lord.
One of the rear admirals rose and came over to the little dynamiter.
Captain, when a lowly major is asked by a rear admiral-one of the good rear admirals-if he is willing to render a service, what is one to do?
Two of themthe Rear Admirals, both senior to meI now recognized as classmates of mine at the Helmsman's Academy.
On the other side of the deck were gathered the officers of the Bounty, looking self-conscious and ill at ease in that company of ships' captains and admirals and rear admirals.
Alice Truman, on the other hand, was the daughter of a vice admiral, the granddaughter of a captain and a rear admiral, and the great- granddaughter of a commodore, two rear admirals, and a first space lord.