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FADM

FADM is the abbreviation of fleet admiral.

Meaning of fleet admiral

Noun

fleet admiral (plural fleet admirals)

  1. (historical) The highest rank in the United States Navy, NATO grade OF-10, used only during World War II.
    • The last commissioned fleet admiral was William Halsey in 1945. The last to hold the rank was Chester Nimitz, who died 20 February 1966.
    Synonyms:
    admiral of the fleet, admiral of the navy

Forms of FADM

pluralFADMs

Questions about FADM

What is FADM the abbreviation of?
FADM is the abbreviation of fleet admiral.

Words near FADM in the dictionary

  1. fadish
  2. fadista
  3. fadistas
  4. fadjr
  5. fadlike
  6. FADM
  7. fadmonger
  8. fadmongering
  9. fadmongers
  10. Fadness
  11. Fadnesses

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Adapted from Wiktionary: FADM (page history and authors); fleet admiral (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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