Meaning of ensign | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A surname.
2. A badge of office, rank, or power.
3. A badge of office, rank, or power
4. A hamlet in Vulcan County, Alberta, Canada.
5. The lowest grade of commissioned officer in the United States Navy, junior to a lieutenant junior grade.
6. The lowest grade of commissioned officer in the United States Navy, junior to a lieutenant junior grade
7. A minor city in Gray County, Kansas, United States, named after founder G. L. Ensign.
8. A flag or banner carried by military units; a standard or color/colour.
9. A flag or banner carried by military units; a standard or color/colour
10. A township in Delta County, Michigan, United States.
11. The principal flag or banner flown by a ship (usually at the stern) to indicate nationality.
12. The principal flag or banner flown by a ship (usually at the stern) to indicate nationality
13. The official magazine of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
    Mormonism
14. Any prominent flag or banner.
15. Any prominent flag or banner
16. A junior commissioned officer in the 18th and 19th centuries whose duty was to carry the unit's ensign.
    historical

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Examples

“The Ensigns of our Power about we bear; / And every Land pays Tribute to the Fair.”

“The skipper Mr. Cooke had hired at Far Harbor was a God-fearing man with a luke warm interest in his new billet and employer, and had only been prevailed upon to take charge of the yacht after the offer of an emolument equal to half a year's sea pay of an ensign in the navy.”

“Hang up your ensigns, let your drums be still,”

“But Alcibiades swiftly ran up the Athenian ensign on his flagship and bore down on that part of the Peloponnesian fleet which held the advantage and was pursuing the Athenians.”

“Ten thousand thousand ensigns high advanced.”

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