admiralty
Americannoun
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admiralties
plural
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the office or jurisdiction of an admiral.
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the officials or the department of state having charge of naval affairs, as in Great Britain.
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a court dealing with maritime questions, offenses, etc.
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maritime law.
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the Admiralty, the official building, in London, of the British commissioners for naval affairs.
adjective
noun
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the office or jurisdiction of an admiral
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jurisdiction over naval affairs
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( as modifier )
admiralty law
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Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of admiralty
1300–50; Middle English amiralty < Middle French. See admiral, -ty 2
Example Sentences
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His grandfather Lewis Morris became the colonial governor of New Jersey; his father, Lewis Morris Jr., was an admiralty court judge in New York.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
But the judge questioned whether Congress can strip courts of their own admiralty jurisdiction over a shipwreck, something that has centuries of legal precedent.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 13, 2024
We aim to sit down with some who have done family histories plus some elderly residents, make our way through admiralty and church records and see what connections we can find.
From BBC ● May 4, 2022
Indeed, in dozens of admiralty cases during the war, the federal courts performed their own evaluations of the facts and the law.
From Slate ● Jan. 8, 2019
Not until 1930, when a young Washington admiralty lawyer and keen hiker named Myron Avery took over the development of the project, did work actually begin, but suddenly it moved on apace.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
As regards cruisers we shall soon have the Dunkerque, which foreign admiralties agree already must be considered the world's most powerful capital ship.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Not at all, no no!" boomed Herr Professor Oswald Flamm in Berlin last week, and the admiralties of the World listened for he ranks among the three greatest experts on subsea warfare.
From Time Magazine Archive
It bought and broadcast the content of secret radio war orders from the German and British admiralties to merchantmen at sea.
From Time Magazine Archive
And in all three respects the Americans from the very outset have so conducted themselves and their craft as to earn the highest encomiums from the Entente admiralties.
From Our Navy in the War by Lawrence Perry
This is the reason why American headquarters in London, and the Allied admiralties, expected such a visitation.
From The Victory At Sea by Burton J. Hendrick
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