"lieutenant colonel" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: lieutenant colonels [plural], lieutenants colonel [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|s|lieutenants colonel}} lieutenant colonel (plural lieutenant colonels or lieutenants colonel)
  1. An army officer in many countries, ranking below a colonel and above a major. Often the commander of a battalion or the executive officer of a regiment. Synonyms: half-colonel
    Sense id: en-lieutenant_colonel-en-noun-MbVuqr6V
  2. An English-language term used as a general categorization for military officer ranks that are the equivalent of lieutenant colonel, the relative rank level is found in most countries.
    Sense id: en-lieutenant_colonel-en-noun-4kd785XN
  3. An officer in the United States Marine Corps or Royal Marines, of equivalent rank to their counterparts in the army. Categories (topical): People
    Sense id: en-lieutenant_colonel-en-noun-aZxvcb92 Disambiguation of People: 11 12 43 34
  4. An officer in the United States Air Force, Air Force Reserve, or Air National Guard, ranking below colonel and above major. Often the commander of a squadron or the executive officer of a wing. Categories (topical): Military ranks Translations (military rank): tinent coronel [feminine, masculine] (Catalan), podplukovník [masculine] (Czech), kolonelleitnant (Estonian), everstiluutnantti (Finnish), lieutenant-colonel [masculine] (French), tenente coronel [masculine] (Galician), Oberstleutnant [masculine] (German), αντισυνταγματάρχης (antisyntagmatárchis) [army, military, war, government, politics] (Greek), αντισμήναρχος (antismínarchos) (Greek), alezredes (Hungarian), letnan kolonel (Indonesian), tenente colonnello [masculine] (Italian), 중령 (jungnyeong) [South-Korea] (Korean), 중좌 (jungjwa) [North-Korea] (Korean), потполковник (potpolkovnik) [masculine] (Macedonian), leftenan kolonel (Malay), aachernyl [masculine] (Manx), podpułkownik [masculine] (Polish), tenente-coronel [masculine] (Portuguese), locotenent-colonel [masculine] (Romanian), подполко́вник (podpolkóvnik) [masculine] (Russian), teniente coronel (Spanish), luteni kanali (Swahili), överstelöjtnant [common-gender] (Swedish), tenyente koronel (Tagalog), yarbay (Turkish), підполко́вник (pidpolkóvnyk) [masculine] (Ukrainian), підполко́вниця (pidpolkóvnycja) [feminine] (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-lieutenant_colonel-en-noun-36NpAMB3 Disambiguation of Military ranks: 16 15 23 46 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 16 16 27 42 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 12 16 21 51 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 11 17 21 51 Disambiguation of 'military rank': 18 16 27 39
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: Lieut. Col., LieutCol, Lieut Col, light colonel, Lt. Col., LTC, Lt Col, LtCol

Inflected forms

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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.