Ensign

Noun

 * 1) The lowest grade of commissioned officer in the United States Navy, junior to a lieutenant junior grade.
 * 2) A flag or banner carried by military units. See standard, color, colour.
 * 3)  The principal flag or banner flown by a ship to indicate nationality.
 * 4) A junior commissioned officer in the 18th and 19th Centuries whose duty was to carry the unit's ensign.
 * 5) A prominent flag or banner.
 * Ten thousand thousand ensigns high advanced. -Milton, Paradise Lost.

Thesaurus
Dannebrog, Jolly Roger, Old Glory, Star-Spangled Banner, Stars and Stripes, Union Flag, Union Jack, admiral, and blue, armory, badge, badge of office, badges, banderole, banner, banneret, baton, black flag, blazonry, blue ensign, brassard, bunting, burgee, button, cap and gown, captain, chain, chain of office, chief petty officer, class ring, coachwhip, cockade, collar, color, colors, commander, commodore, cross, decoration, dress, eagle, emblems, ensigns, fasces, figurehead, flag, fleet admiral, fleur-de-lis, gonfalon, gonfanon, guidon, hammer and sickle, heraldry, house flag, insignia, jack, lapel pin, lieutenant, lieutenant commander, lieutenant junior grade, livery, long pennant, mace, mantle, markings, medal, merchant flag, mortarboard, national flag, naval officer, navarch, old school tie, oriflamme, pennant, pennon, pennoncel, petty officer, pin, rear admiral, red, red ensign, regalia, ring, rose, royal standard, school ring, shamrock, sigillography, signal flag, skipper, skull and crossbones, sphragistics, staff, standard, streamer, swallowtail, swastika, tartan, thistle, tie, tricolor, uniform, verge, vexillum, vice admiral, wand, warrant officer, white

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