Definition of midshipman
: a person in training for a naval commission;
especially
: a student in a naval academy
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Another decade of sharing our midshipmen with the nation through the eyes of CBS productions for our home games is exciting and much appreciated.
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Only five other midshipmen out of 899 ranked lower.
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Correction: This story has been updated to remove incorrect references to the midshipmen as officers.
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There were 500 midshipmen involved in pregame festivities as combat jet flew over as the national anthems played.
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Not since midshipman David Robinson has a service academy produced as prodigious a hoops talent as the 5-foot-7-inch Minato.
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Hundreds of midshipmen marched onto a stage built to resemble an aircraft carrier, past a replica fighter plane and a weather buoy with a fake seagull perched on top.
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Page detailed his long history with Russia during a meeting with House investigators last November, starting with a June 1991 visit to Moscow as a Naval Academy midshipman.
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In 1993, as a midshipman at the U.S. Naval Academy, Carter Page wrote an academic paper on the tension between the executive branch and Congress over national defense secrets.
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First Known Use of midshipman
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MIDSHIPMAN Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of midshipman for English Language Learners
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: someone who is being trained to become an officer in the U.S. Navy
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: an officer who is of the lowest rank in the British Navy
MIDSHIPMAN Defined for Kids
Definition of midshipman for Students
plural midshipmen
\-mən\
: a person who is training to become an officer in the navy
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