colonel

[US]/ˈkɜːnl/
[UK]/ˈkɜːrnl/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. a rank in the army above lieutenant colonel and below brigadier general

Phrases & Collocations

lieutenant colonel

Example Sentences

Colonel is the military rank between lieutenant-colonel and brigadier.

Colonel Moore was benevolent but no pushover.

A lieutenant colonel ranks above a major.

A colonel is three steps above a captain.

The colonel’s calmness maddened Pluskat.

the colonel's anger at his daughter's disobedience.

you'll still find Colonel Blimps at local party level.

The colonel was one of the richest nabobs of his day.

The colonel advanced him from lieutenant to captain.

It occurred to him to tell the colonel of the problem.

The colonel paraded his troops.

The Colonel gave me advice on how to comport myself in the White House.

tactics like those of the colonel would have been an invitation to disaster.

But Colonel-General Kurt Zeitzler insisted that the offensive go ahead and he became the main avocet of the offensive.

the Colonel was coming towards her, his gun tucked under his arm.

"They call the study of butterflies lepidopterology,"the colonel once joked in an interview,"and that`s enough to scare anyone away from butterflies for good .

Outloading for the evacuation, conducted from 2 to 10 December, was under Lieutenant Colonel Henry “Jim” Crowe with muscle provided by his 1st Shore Party Battalion.

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