Noun: amiral
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | amiral |
| Singular f | amirale |
| Plural m | amiraux |
Sample Sentences
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Mais dans ce pays-ci il est bon de tuer de tems en tems un Amiral pour encourager les autres. (But in this country it's good from time to time to kill an admiral to encourage the others.) [1759, Voltaire, Candide, page 160:]
Nouns inflected like amiral
colonial,
gêneral,
cérébral,
caporal,
général,
Provençal,
libéral,
provincial,
lieutenant-général,
rival,
principal,
millénarial,
contre-amiral,
paralégal,
major-général,
amiral,
morfal,
brutal,
néolibéral,
vassal, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Old French amiral etc., from Medieval Latin amiralis, from Arabic أَمِير (ʔamīr, “commander”) + -alis (“-al”).
Verbs referencing "amiral"
German Nouns
Admiral, Finnish Nouns
amiraali, Galician Nouns
almirante, Portuguese Nouns
almirante, Romanian Nouns
amiral, Swedish Nouns
amiral.
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