Crossword-Solution: ENSIGN
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Ensign | n. | A flag; a banner; a standard; esp., the national flag, or a banner indicating nationality, carried by a ship or a body of soldiers; -- as distinguished from flags indicating divisions of the army, rank of naval officers, or private signals, and the like. |
| Ensign | n. | A signal displayed like a standard, to give notice. |
| Ensign | n. | Sign; badge of office, rank, or power; symbol. |
| Ensign | n. | Formerly, a commissioned officer of the army who carried the ensign or flag of a company or regiment. |
| Ensign | n. | A commissioned officer of the lowest grade in the navy, corresponding to the grade of second lieutenant in the army. |
| Ensign | v. t. | To designate as by an ensign. |
| Ensign | v. t. | To distinguish by a mark or ornament; esp. (Her.), by a crown; thus, any charge which has a crown immediately above or upon it, is said to be ensigned. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| ENSIGN | anagram | NESIGN |
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Sentences with ENSIGN (5)
Illustrious farr and wide, but by his own First seen, them unexpected joy surpriz’d, When the great Ensign of _Messiah_ blaz’d Aloft by Angels born, his Sign in Heav’n: Under whose Conduct _Michael_ soon reduc’d His Armie, circumfus’d on either Wing, Under thir Head imbodied all in one.
Over these floated the sacred standard, called “Le Beau-seant”, which was the ensign, as its name was the battle-cry, of the Templars.
Among the number who paid their devotions at her shrine, she singled one, a young Ensign of mean birth, indifferent education, and weak intellects.
When the weather permitted, the flags of the ship were hung up as an awning or screen, forming the quarter-deck into a distinct compartment; the pendant was also hoisted at the mainmast, and a large ensign flag was displayed over the stern; and lastly, the ship’s companion, or top of the staircase, was covered with the _flag proper_ of the Lighthouse Service, on which the Bible was laid.
This is easily managed by a little intriguing with the dragoman of one of the embassies at Constantinople, and the craft soon glories in the ensign of Russia, or the dazzling Tricolor, or the Union Jack.
Quotes with ENSIGN (3)
President Thomas S. Monson has said: “God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity in the cloud, the oil in the earth. He left the rivers unbridged and the forests unfelled and the cities unbuilt. God gives to man the challenge of raw materials, not the ease of finished things. He leaves the pictures unpainted and the music unsung and the problems unsolved, that man might know the joys and glories of creation.” (in Quest of the Abundan…
This tottered ensign of my ancestors Which swept the desert shore of that dead sea Whereof we got the name of Mortimer, Will I advance upon these castle-walls. Drums, strike alarum, raise them from their sport, And sing aloud the knell of Gaveston!
When the big German guns at Calais fired on us, we realized, we had been strafed by Spitfires from the RAF during working up exercises for the invasion, accidentally attacked by the USN off Normandy after D-Day and shelled by the British Army in the English Channel. It was about time the enemy took a few shots at us too!" Jack Harold, RCNVR, Signalman HMCS TRENTONIANChapter 9, White Ensign Flying -The Story of HMCS TRENTONIAN.
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, Daily Beast, LAT, Newsday, NYM, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 123 times in crossword archives (1945–2025).