"état major" meaning in All languages combined

See état major on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: états major [plural]
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French, from état (“state”) + Latin major (“greater”). Etymology templates: {{ubor|en|fr|-}} Unadapted borrowing from French, {{m|fr|état|t=state}} état (“state”), {{der|en|la|major|t=greater}} Latin major (“greater”) Head templates: {{en-noun|états major}} état major (plural états major)
  1. (military) The staff of an army, including all officers above the rank of colonel, all adjutants, inspectors, quartermasters, commissaries, engineers, ordnance officers, paymasters, physicians, signal officers, and judge advocates, and their noncommissioned assistants. Categories (topical): Military
    Sense id: en-état_major-en-noun-7YeGglar Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Topics: government, military, politics, war

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for état major meaning in All languages combined (3.2kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fr",
        "3": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "Unadapted borrowing from French",
      "name": "ubor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "état",
        "t": "state"
      },
      "expansion": "état (“state”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "major",
        "t": "greater"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin major (“greater”)",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Unadapted borrowing from French, from état (“state”) + Latin major (“greater”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "états major",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "états major"
      },
      "expansion": "état major (plural états major)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Military",
          "orig": "en:Military",
          "parents": [
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1814, Paul Svinine, Some Details concerning General Moreau, page 123",
          "text": "At length seeing the strife between that body and the councils settled, and guessing what would be the issue of it, the General felt that he would lose himself by his silence, without saving Pichegru, and being particularly pressed by his chef d'état Major […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1914, Journal of the United States Cavalry Association, page 435",
          "text": "An officer from the dragoons and an officer from the chasseurs joined the état major and were used by the General to take orders to their respective regimental commanders.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Jennifer Siegel, For Peace and Money: French and British Finance in the Service of Tsars and Commissars, page 120",
          "text": "The key conditions, however, were that Russia had to immediately commence the construction of the strategic lines for which France had long been clamoring, in accordance with plans drawn up by the États-Major of France, and the peacetime preparedness and effectiveness of the Russian army had to be augmented.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The staff of an army, including all officers above the rank of colonel, all adjutants, inspectors, quartermasters, commissaries, engineers, ordnance officers, paymasters, physicians, signal officers, and judge advocates, and their noncommissioned assistants."
      ],
      "id": "en-état_major-en-noun-7YeGglar",
      "links": [
        [
          "military",
          "military"
        ],
        [
          "staff",
          "staff"
        ],
        [
          "army",
          "army"
        ],
        [
          "officer",
          "officer"
        ],
        [
          "colonel",
          "colonel"
        ],
        [
          "adjutant",
          "adjutant"
        ],
        [
          "inspector",
          "inspector"
        ],
        [
          "quartermaster",
          "quartermaster"
        ],
        [
          "commissaries",
          "commissary"
        ],
        [
          "engineer",
          "engineer"
        ],
        [
          "ordnance",
          "ordnance"
        ],
        [
          "paymaster",
          "paymaster"
        ],
        [
          "physician",
          "physician"
        ],
        [
          "signal",
          "signal"
        ],
        [
          "noncommissioned",
          "noncommissioned"
        ],
        [
          "assistant",
          "assistant"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(military) The staff of an army, including all officers above the rank of colonel, all adjutants, inspectors, quartermasters, commissaries, engineers, ordnance officers, paymasters, physicians, signal officers, and judge advocates, and their noncommissioned assistants."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "government",
        "military",
        "politics",
        "war"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "état major"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fr",
        "3": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "Unadapted borrowing from French",
      "name": "ubor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "état",
        "t": "state"
      },
      "expansion": "état (“state”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "major",
        "t": "greater"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin major (“greater”)",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Unadapted borrowing from French, from état (“state”) + Latin major (“greater”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "états major",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "états major"
      },
      "expansion": "état major (plural états major)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms borrowed from French",
        "English terms derived from French",
        "English terms derived from Latin",
        "English terms spelled with É",
        "English terms spelled with ◌́",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English unadapted borrowings from French",
        "en:Military"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1814, Paul Svinine, Some Details concerning General Moreau, page 123",
          "text": "At length seeing the strife between that body and the councils settled, and guessing what would be the issue of it, the General felt that he would lose himself by his silence, without saving Pichegru, and being particularly pressed by his chef d'état Major […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1914, Journal of the United States Cavalry Association, page 435",
          "text": "An officer from the dragoons and an officer from the chasseurs joined the état major and were used by the General to take orders to their respective regimental commanders.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Jennifer Siegel, For Peace and Money: French and British Finance in the Service of Tsars and Commissars, page 120",
          "text": "The key conditions, however, were that Russia had to immediately commence the construction of the strategic lines for which France had long been clamoring, in accordance with plans drawn up by the États-Major of France, and the peacetime preparedness and effectiveness of the Russian army had to be augmented.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The staff of an army, including all officers above the rank of colonel, all adjutants, inspectors, quartermasters, commissaries, engineers, ordnance officers, paymasters, physicians, signal officers, and judge advocates, and their noncommissioned assistants."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "military",
          "military"
        ],
        [
          "staff",
          "staff"
        ],
        [
          "army",
          "army"
        ],
        [
          "officer",
          "officer"
        ],
        [
          "colonel",
          "colonel"
        ],
        [
          "adjutant",
          "adjutant"
        ],
        [
          "inspector",
          "inspector"
        ],
        [
          "quartermaster",
          "quartermaster"
        ],
        [
          "commissaries",
          "commissary"
        ],
        [
          "engineer",
          "engineer"
        ],
        [
          "ordnance",
          "ordnance"
        ],
        [
          "paymaster",
          "paymaster"
        ],
        [
          "physician",
          "physician"
        ],
        [
          "signal",
          "signal"
        ],
        [
          "noncommissioned",
          "noncommissioned"
        ],
        [
          "assistant",
          "assistant"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(military) The staff of an army, including all officers above the rank of colonel, all adjutants, inspectors, quartermasters, commissaries, engineers, ordnance officers, paymasters, physicians, signal officers, and judge advocates, and their noncommissioned assistants."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "government",
        "military",
        "politics",
        "war"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "état major"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-12 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (ae36afe and 304864d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.