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colonel

[ kur-nl ]

noun

  1. an officer in the U.S. Army, Air Force, or Marine Corps ranking between lieutenant colonel and brigadier general: corresponding to a captain in the U.S. Navy.
  2. a commissioned officer of similar rank in the armed forces of some other nations.
  3. an honorary title bestowed by some Southern states, as to those who have brought honor to the state, prominent businesspersons, visiting celebrities, or the like:

    When the vice president visited the state he was made a Kentucky colonel.

  4. Older Use. (in the South) a title of respect prefixed to the name of distinguished elderly men.


colonel

/ 藞办蓽藧苍蓹濒 /

noun

  1. an officer of land or air forces junior to a brigadier but senior to a lieutenant colonel
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Pronunciation Note

Colonel [kur, -nl], with its medial l pronounced as [r], illustrates one source for the apparent vagaries of English spelling: divergence between a word's orthographic development and its established pronunciation. In this case, English borrowed from French two variant forms of the same word, one pronounced with medial and final [l], and a second reflecting dissimilation of the first [l] to [r]. After a period of competition, the dissimilated form triumphed in pronunciation, while the spelling colonel became the orthographic standard.
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Derived Forms

  • 藞肠辞濒辞苍别濒肠测, noun
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Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms

  • 肠辞濒辞顎僴别濒路肠测 noun
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of colonel1

1540鈥50; < Middle French < Italian colon(n)ello, equivalent to colonn(a) column + -ello < Latin -ellus diminutive suffix; so named because such an officer originally headed the first column or company of a regiment
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of colonel1

C16: via Old French, from Old Italian colonnello column of soldiers, from colonna column
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Example Sentences

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Mr Caterham became a lieutenant colonel in the army, and the couple were stationed in Hong Kong and Gibraltar.

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鈥淪he said she was lieutenant colonel in the GRU,鈥 Perlowin, now 74, told The Times, referring to the Soviet Union鈥檚 military intelligence agency.

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With more than 1 million tons of concrete, steel, earth and plants already removed from the burn areas, two colonels overseeing the operation reached for superlatives to describe the scope of the work.

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The princess, who has been colonel of the regiment since 2023, missed the celebrations last year after being diagnosed with cancer.

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As the last rays of the sun disappeared, Borys, a spry and upright retired colonel of 70 who served 30 years in the Soviet army stopped on his way to his car.

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