ensign
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Noun [edit]
ensign (plural ensigns)
- A badge of office, rank, or power
- The lowest grade of commissioned officer in the United States Navy, junior to a lieutenant junior grade.
- A flag or banner carried by military units. See standard, color, colour.
- (nautical) The principal flag or banner flown by a ship to indicate nationality.
- A junior commissioned officer in the 18th and 19th Centuries whose duty was to carry the unit's ensign.
- A prominent flag or banner.
- Ten thousand thousand ensigns high advanced. -Milton, Paradise Lost.
Translations [edit]
military officer
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banner
Verb [edit]
ensign (third-person singular simple present ensigns, present participle ensigning, simple past and past participle ensigned)
- (obsolete) To designate as by an ensign.
- (Can we date this quote?) Ben Jonson,:
- Henry but joined the roses that ensigned Particular families.
- (Can we date this quote?) Ben Jonson,:
- To distinguish by a mark or ornament
- (heraldry) To distinguish by an ornament, especially by a crown.
- Any charge which has a crown immediately above or upon it, is said to be ensigned.