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Definition: Flag Officer |
Flag OfficerNoun1. A senior naval officer above the rank of captain. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Crosswords: Flag Officer |
| English words defined with "flag officer": flag rank. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "flag officer": Flag-ship. (references) |
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 | Line engraving published in "Harper's Weekly", July-December 1861 volume, page 725. It gives two views of Flag Officer DuPont's squadron at Hampton Roads, Virginia, prior to leaving on 29 October 1861 to capture Port Royal, South Carolina. Ships and geographical features, as identified below the images, are (upper engraving, from left): ferry boats, store ship, steamer Marion, USS Seminole, steamer Ben Deford, ship Grapeshot, Fort Monroe, USS Narragansett, USS Alabama, USS Pawnee, and new ("90-Day") gunboats (lower engraving, from left): store ship, steamer Vanderbilt, steam tug (foreground), store ship, steamer Winfield Scott, steamer Atlantic, USS Minnesota, steamer Baltic, USS Relief, USS Wabash, USS R.B. Forbes, steamer Oriental, steamer Matanzas, steamer Philadelphia, and the Rip Raps. Credit: NAVY. |  | Engraving by W. Ridgway after a drawing by C. Parsons, published by Virtue & Co., New York. It depicts Federal warships, under Flag Officer Samuel F. DuPont, USN, bombarding Fort Beauregard (at left) and Fort Walker (at right). Troop transports are standing by in the distance. U.S. Navy ships present and identified include (from left): Mohican, Susquehanna, Augusta, Wabash (Flagship), Unadilla, Pawnee, Bienville, Ottawa, Curlew and Seneca. Credit: NAVY. |
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biography flag officer | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "flag officer"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | kundëradmiral e lartë. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | флагман. (various references) | |
Czech | admirál (admiral). (various references) | |
Dutch | vlagofficier. (various references) | |
French | officier général. (various references) | |
German | Flaggoffizier. (various references) | |
Greek | υποναύαρχοσ. (various references) | |
Hungarian | flotta főparancsnoka (admiral of the fleet), váltóõr (switch-man). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | agflay officeray.(various references) | |
Romanian | amiral (admiral, flag captain). (various references) | |
Russian | флагман (flagship), адмирал (admiral). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | viši oficir (field officer). (various references) | |
Spanish | oficial superior de la marina. (various references) | |
Swedish | flaggman, viceamiral (Vice admiral), konteramiral (rear admiral, rear-admiral), amiral (admiral). (various references) | |
Turkish | tuğamiral (rear admiral), tümamiral, amiral (admiral, Commodore). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | адмірал (admiral). (various references) | |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-f-f-f-g-i-l-o-r" | |
-4 letters: calorie, cariole, coalier, foliage, fragile, giraffe, glacier, gracile, loricae, officer. | |
-5 letters: cagier, caroli, coaler, coffer, coffle, coiffe, coiler, eclair, facile, farcie, farfel, fecial, ferial, fiacre, florae, foliar, forage, frolic, gaffer, galore, gaoler, garlic, glaire, gloria, goalie, goffer, golfer, griffe, lacier, loafer, logier, lorica, office, oracle, orgiac, raffle, recoal, recoil, riffle. | |
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