Usually means: Junior rank in naval forces.
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  1. ensign: Merriam-Webster
  2. ensign: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ensign: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. ensign: Collins English Dictionary
  5. ensign: Vocabulary.com
  6. Ensign, ensign: Wordnik
  7. ensign: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Ensign, ensign: Wiktionary
  9. ensign: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. ensign: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. ensign: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Ensign, ensign: Dictionary.com
  13. ensign: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. ensign: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Ensign (LDS magazine), Ensign (Star Trek), Ensign (United States), Ensign (band), Ensign (disambiguation), Ensign (racing team), Ensign (rank), Ensign (surname), Ensign, The Ensign (USPS magazine), The Ensign (video game), The Ensign: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Ensign: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. ensign: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. ensign: Rhymezone
  19. Ensign: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. ensign: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Ensign: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. ensign: FreeDictionary.org
  23. ensign: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  24. ensign: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. ensign: TheFreeDictionary.com
  26. ensign: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  27. ensign: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. ensign: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ENSIGN, ENSIGN, ENSIGN: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Ensign: Easton Bible
  2. Ensign: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  2. Ensign: Latitude Mexico

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A badge of office, rank, or power.
noun:  The lowest grade of commissioned officer in the United States Navy, junior to a lieutenant junior grade.
noun:  A flag or banner carried by military units; a standard or color/colour.
noun:  (nautical) The principal flag or banner flown by a ship (usually at the stern) to indicate nationality.
noun:  Any prominent flag or banner.
noun:  (historical) A junior commissioned officer in the 18th and 19th centuries whose duty was to carry the unit's ensign.
verb:  (obsolete) To designate as by an ensign.
verb:  To distinguish by a mark or ornament.
verb:  (heraldry) To distinguish by an ornament, especially by a crown.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  A hamlet in Vulcan County, Alberta, Canada.
noun:  A minor city in Gray County, Kansas, United States, named after founder G. L. Ensign.
noun:  A township in Delta County, Michigan, United States.
noun:  (Mormonism) The official magazine of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

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