"brigadier general" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: brigadier generals [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} brigadier general (plural brigadier generals)
  1. (military) A military officer who commands a brigade. Categories (topical): Military, People Translations (an officer commanding a brigade): brigádní generál [masculine] (Czech), brigadegeneral (Danish), prikaatikenraali (Finnish), prikaatinkenraali (english: old) (Finnish), brigadier-général (French), Brigadegeneral (German), ταξίαρχος (taxíarchos) [masculine] (Greek), brigadiere generale [masculine] (Italian), comandante di brigata [masculine] (Italian), бригаден генерал (english: brigaden general) [masculine] (Macedonian), general de brigadă [masculine] (Romanian), бригадни генерал [Cyrillic, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), бригадна генералица [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), brigadni general [Roman, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), brigadna generalica [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian)
    Sense id: en-brigadier_general-en-noun-GqoN4aZU Disambiguation of People: 51 6 43 Categories (other): English terms where the adjective follows the noun Disambiguation of English terms where the adjective follows the noun: 21 38 42 Topics: government, military, politics, war Disambiguation of 'an officer commanding a brigade': 77 7 16
  2. (US, military) A one star general. Tags: US Categories (topical): Military Translations (A one star general): brigádní generál [masculine] (Czech), brigadegeneral [common-gender] (Danish), prikaatikenraali (Finnish), lippueamiraali (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-brigadier_general-en-noun-qPNqCFn6 Categories (other): American English, English terms where the adjective follows the noun Disambiguation of English terms where the adjective follows the noun: 21 38 42 Topics: government, military, politics, war Disambiguation of 'A one star general': 0 96 3
  3. (military) A military rank between colonel and the second lowest general rank or major general, having an O7 NATO rank scale equivalency Categories (topical): Military ranks, Leaders, People Synonyms: brigadier, Brig. Gen. [abbreviation] Coordinate_terms: commodore admiral, rear admiral (english: lower half)
    Sense id: en-brigadier_general-en-noun-uqYwJCx2 Disambiguation of Leaders: 29 7 65 Disambiguation of People: 51 6 43 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms where the adjective follows the noun, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Czech translations, Terms with Danish translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Greek translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Macedonian translations, Terms with Romanian translations, Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 12 14 74 Disambiguation of English terms where the adjective follows the noun: 21 38 42 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 8 4 88 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 8 8 85 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 7 7 86 Disambiguation of Terms with Czech translations: 19 20 61 Disambiguation of Terms with Danish translations: 9 19 72 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 15 17 68 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 15 5 80 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 15 10 76 Disambiguation of Terms with Greek translations: 18 7 75 Disambiguation of Terms with Italian translations: 15 6 79 Disambiguation of Terms with Macedonian translations: 21 18 61 Disambiguation of Terms with Romanian translations: 17 19 64 Disambiguation of Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations: 19 21 60 Topics: government, military, politics, war

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). 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.