Ensign vs Colours - What's the difference?
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A badge of office, rank, or power.
* (Edmund Waller) (1606-1687)
The lowest grade of commissioned officer in the United States Navy, junior to a lieutenant junior grade.
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A flag or banner carried by military units. See standard, color, colour.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
(label) The principal flag or banner flown by a ship to indicate nationality.
A junior commissioned officer in the 18th and 19th Centuries whose duty was to carry the unit's ensign.
A prominent flag or banner.
* 1667 ?, (John Milton), (Paradise Lost)
(obsolete) To designate as by an ensign.
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To distinguish by a mark or ornament
(heraldry) To distinguish by an ornament, especially by a crown.
English plurals
(plurale tantum, nautical) The national flag flown by a ship at sea.
(plurale tantum) The British military ceremony of raising the flag.
(sports, snooker) The balls that score more than one point in snooker. Yellow, green, brown, blue, pink, and black.
(colour)
Ensign is a related term of colours.
As a proper noun ensign
is .As a noun colours is
.As a verb colours is
(colour).ensign
English
(wikipedia ensign)Noun
(en noun)- The ensigns of our power about we bear.
- Hang up your ensigns , let your drums be still.
- Ten thousand thousand ensigns high advanced.
Synonyms
(junior commissioned officer) * coronet (cavalry equivalent of the infantry ensign) * second lieutenant (OF-1), first NATO commissioned officer grade above OF-0 trainee officerVerb
(en verb)- Any charge which has a crown immediately above or upon it, is said to be ensigned .