"colonel" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈkɜːnəl/ [UK], /ˈkɝnəl/ [US] Audio: en-us-colonel.ogg [US] Forms: colonels [plural]
Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)nəl Etymology: First attested 1548, from Middle French coronnel, from Old Italian colonnello (“the officer of a small company of soldiers (column) that marched at the head of a regiment”), from compagnia colonnella (“little column company”), from Latin columna (“pillar”), originally a collateral form of columen, contraction culmen (“a pillar, top, crown, summit”), o-grade form from a Proto-Indo-European *kelH- (“to rise, be elevated, be prominent”). See hill, holm. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*kelH-}}, {{bor|en|frm|coronnel}} Middle French coronnel, {{der|en|roa-oit|colonnello|t=the officer of a small company of soldiers (column) that marched at the head of a regiment}} Old Italian colonnello (“the officer of a small company of soldiers (column) that marched at the head of a regiment”), {{m|it|compagnia colonnella|t=little column company}} compagnia colonnella (“little column company”), {{der|en|la|columna|t=pillar}} Latin columna (“pillar”), {{m|la|columen}} columen, {{m|la|culmen|t=a pillar, top, crown, summit}} culmen (“a pillar, top, crown, summit”), {{der|en|ine-pro|*kelH-|t=to rise, be elevated, be prominent}} Proto-Indo-European *kelH- (“to rise, be elevated, be prominent”), {{m|en|hill}} hill, {{m|en|holm}} holm Head templates: {{en-noun}} colonel (plural colonels)
  1. A commissioned officer in an armed military organization, typically the highest rank before flag officer ranks (generals). It is generally found in armies, air forces or naval infantry (marines). Categories (topical): Military ranks Derived forms: bird colonel (english: chicken colonel, full bird colonel), chickens for Colonel Sanders, colonel general, full colonel, half-colonel, lieutenant colonel (english: lieutenant-colonel), senior colonel Related terms: colonelcy, colonel-general, royal colonel Translations (commissioned office in the armed services): kolonel (Afrikaans), kolonel [masculine] (Albanian), عَقِيد (ʕaqīd) [masculine] (Arabic), زَعِيم (zaʕīm) [masculine] (Arabic), زَعِيم رُتْبَة (zaʕīm rutba) [masculine] (Arabic), كُولُونِيل (kulunīl) [masculine] (Arabic), գնդապետ (gndapet) (Armenian), culunel [masculine] (Aromanian), polkovnik (Azerbaijani), sərhəng [South-Azerbaijani] (Azerbaijani), палко́ўнік (palkóŭnik) [masculine] (Belarusian), কর্নেল (kornel) (Bengali), полко́вник (polkóvnik) [masculine] (Bulgarian), coronel (Catalan), 上校 (soeng⁶ gaau³) (Chinese Cantonese), 上校 (shàngxiào) (Chinese Mandarin), plukovník [masculine] (Czech), oberst [common-gender] (Danish), kolonel [masculine] (Dutch), kolonelo (Esperanto), kolonel (Estonian), polkovnik (Estonian), eversti (Finnish), colonel [masculine] (French), coronel [masculine] (Galician), პოლკოვნიკი (ṗolḳovniḳi) (Georgian), Oberst [masculine] (German), συνταγματάρχης (syntagmatárchis) [feminine, masculine] [army, military, war, government, politics] (Greek), σμήναρχος (smínarchos) [feminine, masculine] (Greek), કર્નલ (karnal) (Gujarati), kolonèl (Haitian Creole), אַלּוּף מִשְׁנֶה (alúf mishné) [masculine] (Hebrew), कर्नल (karnal) [masculine] (Hindi), ezredes (Hungarian), kolonel (Indonesian), سَرْهَنْگ (sarhang) (Iranian Persian), کُلُنِل (kolonel) (Iranian Persian), colonnello [masculine] (Italian), 大佐 (taisa) (alt: たいさ) (Japanese), ಕರ್ನಲ್ (karnal) (Kannada), полковник (polkovnik) (Kazakh), វរសេនីយ៍ឯក (vɔɔ seenəy ʼaek) (Khmer), 대령 (daeryeong) (alt: 大領) (Korean), полковник (polkovnik) (Kyrgyz), ພັນເອກ (phan ʼēk) (Lao), pulkvedis [masculine] (Latvian), pulkininkas [masculine] (Lithuanian), полковник (polkovnik) [masculine] (Macedonian), kolonel (Malay), kurunell [masculine] (Maltese), curnal [masculine] (Manx), kānara (Maori), कर्नल (karnal) (Marathi), хурандаа (xurandaa) [Cyrillic] (Mongolian), ᠬᠤᠷᠠᠩᠳᠠ (quraŋda) [Mongolian] (Mongolian), coronel [masculine] (Norman), serheng (Northern Kurdish), oberst [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), ډګروال (ḍagarwāl) [masculine] (Pashto), کرنل (karnal) (Pashto), کرنيل (karnayl) [masculine] (Pashto), pułkownik [masculine] (Polish), coronel [masculine] (Portuguese), colonel [masculine] (Romanian), polcovnic [dated, masculine] (Romanian), полко́вник (polkóvnik) [masculine] (Russian), пу̀ко̄внӣк [Cyrillic, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), пуковница [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), pùkōvnīk [Roman, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), pukovnica [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), culunnellu [masculine] (Sicilian), culunneḍḍu [masculine] (Sicilian), plukovník [masculine] (Slovak), polkovnik [masculine] (Slovene), polkóvnica (Slovene), coronel [masculine] (Spanish), överste [common-gender] (Swedish), полковник (polkovnik) (Tajik), сарҳанг (sarhang) (Tajik), полковник (polkownik) (Tatar), కర్నల్ (karnal) (Telugu), พันเอก (pan-èek) (Thai), albay (Turkish), polkownik (Turkmen), полко́вник (polkóvnyk) [masculine] (Ukrainian), کَرْنَل (karnal) [masculine] (Urdu), پولكوۋنىك (polkownik) (Uyghur), شاڭشياۋ (shangshyaw) (Uyghur), polkovnik (Uzbek), đại tá (alt: 大佐) (Vietnamese), gyrnol (Welsh), פּאָלקאָווניק (polkovnik) [masculine] (Yiddish), קאָלאָנעל (kolonel) [masculine] (Yiddish)
    Sense id: en-colonel-en-noun-1ooX7h~6 Disambiguation of Military ranks: 98 2 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with mixed convergence Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 96 4 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 96 4 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 97 3 Disambiguation of English terms with mixed convergence: 82 18
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: coronel [obsolete], col., Col. [abbreviation]

Verb

IPA: /ˈkɜːnəl/ [UK], /ˈkɝnəl/ [US] Audio: en-us-colonel.ogg [US] Forms: colonels [present, singular, third-person], coloneling [participle, present], colonelling [participle, present], coloneled [participle, past], coloneled [past], colonelled [participle, past], colonelled [past]
Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)nəl Etymology: First attested 1548, from Middle French coronnel, from Old Italian colonnello (“the officer of a small company of soldiers (column) that marched at the head of a regiment”), from compagnia colonnella (“little column company”), from Latin columna (“pillar”), originally a collateral form of columen, contraction culmen (“a pillar, top, crown, summit”), o-grade form from a Proto-Indo-European *kelH- (“to rise, be elevated, be prominent”). See hill, holm. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*kelH-}}, {{bor|en|frm|coronnel}} Middle French coronnel, {{der|en|roa-oit|colonnello|t=the officer of a small company of soldiers (column) that marched at the head of a regiment}} Old Italian colonnello (“the officer of a small company of soldiers (column) that marched at the head of a regiment”), {{m|it|compagnia colonnella|t=little column company}} compagnia colonnella (“little column company”), {{der|en|la|columna|t=pillar}} Latin columna (“pillar”), {{m|la|columen}} columen, {{m|la|culmen|t=a pillar, top, crown, summit}} culmen (“a pillar, top, crown, summit”), {{der|en|ine-pro|*kelH-|t=to rise, be elevated, be prominent}} Proto-Indo-European *kelH- (“to rise, be elevated, be prominent”), {{m|en|hill}} hill, {{m|en|holm}} holm Head templates: {{en-verb|past2=colonelled|pres_ptc2=colonelling}} colonel (third-person singular simple present colonels, present participle coloneling or colonelling, simple past and past participle coloneled or colonelled)
  1. (intransitive) To act as or like a colonel. Tags: intransitive
    Sense id: en-colonel-en-verb-KtifKnNo
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: coronel [obsolete], col., Col. [abbreviation]

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
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          "lang": "Azerbaijani",
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          "lang": "Azerbaijani",
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          "lang": "Bengali",
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          "word": "কর্নেল"
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          "lang": "Bulgarian",
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          "tags": [
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          "code": "ca",
          "lang": "Catalan",
          "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
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          "code": "yue",
          "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
          "roman": "soeng⁶ gaau³",
          "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
          "word": "上校"
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          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "shàngxiào",
          "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
          "word": "上校"
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          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "plukovník"
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          "code": "da",
          "lang": "Danish",
          "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "oberst"
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          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "kolonel"
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          "code": "eo",
          "lang": "Esperanto",
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          "code": "et",
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          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
          "word": "eversti"
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          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
          "tags": [
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          "code": "gl",
          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "coronel"
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          "code": "ka",
          "lang": "Georgian",
          "roman": "ṗolḳovniḳi",
          "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
          "word": "პოლკოვნიკი"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "Oberst"
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          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "syntagmatárchis",
          "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
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          "topics": [
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          "word": "συνταγματάρχης"
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          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "smínarchos",
          "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
          "tags": [
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            "masculine"
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          "word": "σμήναρχος"
        },
        {
          "code": "gu",
          "lang": "Gujarati",
          "roman": "karnal",
          "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
          "word": "કર્નલ"
        },
        {
          "code": "ht",
          "lang": "Haitian Creole",
          "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
          "word": "kolonèl"
        },
        {
          "code": "he",
          "lang": "Hebrew",
          "roman": "alúf mishné",
          "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "אַלּוּף מִשְׁנֶה"
        },
        {
          "code": "hi",
          "lang": "Hindi",
          "roman": "karnal",
          "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "कर्नल"
        },
        {
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
          "word": "ezredes"
        },
        {
          "code": "id",
          "lang": "Indonesian",
          "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
          "word": "kolonel"
        },
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "colonnello"
        },
        {
          "alt": "たいさ",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "taisa",
          "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
          "word": "大佐"
        },
        {
          "code": "kn",
          "lang": "Kannada",
          "roman": "karnal",
          "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
          "word": "ಕರ್ನಲ್"
        },
        {
          "code": "kk",
          "lang": "Kazakh",
          "roman": "polkovnik",
          "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
          "word": "полковник"
        },
        {
          "code": "km",
          "lang": "Khmer",
          "roman": "vɔɔ seenəy ʼaek",
          "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
          "word": "វរសេនីយ៍ឯក"
        },
        {
          "alt": "大領",
          "code": "ko",
          "lang": "Korean",
          "roman": "daeryeong",
          "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
          "word": "대령"
        },
        {
          "code": "kmr",
          "lang": "Northern Kurdish",
          "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
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          "lang": "Kyrgyz",
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          "code": "ms",
          "lang": "Malay",
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          "code": "mt",
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          "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
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          "code": "gv",
          "lang": "Manx",
          "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
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        {
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
          "word": "kānara"
        },
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          "code": "mr",
          "lang": "Marathi",
          "roman": "karnal",
          "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
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          "code": "mn",
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          "code": "mn",
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          "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
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          "word": "ᠬᠤᠷᠠᠩᠳᠠ"
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          "code": "nrf",
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          "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
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            "masculine"
          ],
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          "code": "nb",
          "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
          "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
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            "masculine"
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          "word": "oberst"
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          "code": "ps",
          "lang": "Pashto",
          "roman": "ḍagarwāl",
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          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "ډګروال"
        },
        {
          "code": "ps",
          "lang": "Pashto",
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        {
          "code": "fa-ira",
          "lang": "Iranian Persian",
          "roman": "sarhang",
          "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
          "word": "سَرْهَنْگ"
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          "code": "fa-ira",
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          "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
          "word": "کُلُنِل"
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          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
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          "word": "pułkownik"
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          "code": "pt",
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          "code": "ro",
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          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
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          "code": "sh",
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          "code": "sh",
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          "code": "scn",
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          ],
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          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
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          "code": "tg",
          "lang": "Tajik",
          "roman": "sarhang",
          "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
          "word": "сарҳанг"
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          "code": "tt",
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          "roman": "polkownik",
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          "code": "te",
          "lang": "Telugu",
          "roman": "karnal",
          "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
          "word": "కర్నల్"
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          "code": "th",
          "lang": "Thai",
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          "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
          "word": "พันเอก"
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          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
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          "code": "tk",
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          "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
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          "code": "ur",
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          "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
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          "word": "کَرْنَل"
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          "code": "ug",
          "lang": "Uyghur",
          "roman": "polkownik",
          "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
          "word": "پولكوۋنىك"
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          "code": "ug",
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          "code": "uz",
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          "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
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          "alt": "大佐",
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          "lang": "Vietnamese",
          "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
          "word": "đại tá"
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          "code": "cy",
          "lang": "Welsh",
          "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
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          "code": "yi",
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      "english": "chicken colonel, full bird colonel",
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    {
      "word": "chickens for Colonel Sanders"
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    {
      "word": "colonel general"
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      "word": "full colonel"
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      "word": "half-colonel"
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      "rhymes": "-ɜː(ɹ)nəl"
    },
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      "tags": [
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    {
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ],
      "word": "coronel"
    },
    {
      "word": "col."
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "abbreviation"
      ],
      "word": "Col."
    }
  ],
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    {
      "code": "af",
      "lang": "Afrikaans",
      "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
      "word": "kolonel"
    },
    {
      "code": "sq",
      "lang": "Albanian",
      "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "kolonel"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "ʕaqīd",
      "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "عَقِيد"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "zaʕīm",
      "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "زَعِيم"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "zaʕīm rutba",
      "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "زَعِيم رُتْبَة"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "kulunīl",
      "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "كُولُونِيل"
    },
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "gndapet",
      "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
      "word": "գնդապետ"
    },
    {
      "code": "rup",
      "lang": "Aromanian",
      "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "culunel"
    },
    {
      "code": "az",
      "lang": "Azerbaijani",
      "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
      "word": "polkovnik"
    },
    {
      "code": "az",
      "lang": "Azerbaijani",
      "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
      "tags": [
        "South-Azerbaijani"
      ],
      "word": "sərhəng"
    },
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "palkóŭnik",
      "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "палко́ўнік"
    },
    {
      "code": "bn",
      "lang": "Bengali",
      "roman": "kornel",
      "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
      "word": "কর্নেল"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "polkóvnik",
      "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "полко́вник"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
      "word": "coronel"
    },
    {
      "code": "yue",
      "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
      "roman": "soeng⁶ gaau³",
      "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
      "word": "上校"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "shàngxiào",
      "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
      "word": "上校"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "plukovník"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "oberst"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "kolonel"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
      "word": "kolonelo"
    },
    {
      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
      "word": "kolonel"
    },
    {
      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
      "word": "polkovnik"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
      "word": "eversti"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "colonel"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "coronel"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "ṗolḳovniḳi",
      "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
      "word": "პოლკოვნიკი"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Oberst"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "syntagmatárchis",
      "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "army",
        "military",
        "war",
        "government",
        "politics"
      ],
      "word": "συνταγματάρχης"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "smínarchos",
      "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "σμήναρχος"
    },
    {
      "code": "gu",
      "lang": "Gujarati",
      "roman": "karnal",
      "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
      "word": "કર્નલ"
    },
    {
      "code": "ht",
      "lang": "Haitian Creole",
      "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
      "word": "kolonèl"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "alúf mishné",
      "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "אַלּוּף מִשְׁנֶה"
    },
    {
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "roman": "karnal",
      "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "कर्नल"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
      "word": "ezredes"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
      "word": "kolonel"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "colonnello"
    },
    {
      "alt": "たいさ",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "taisa",
      "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
      "word": "大佐"
    },
    {
      "code": "kn",
      "lang": "Kannada",
      "roman": "karnal",
      "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
      "word": "ಕರ್ನಲ್"
    },
    {
      "code": "kk",
      "lang": "Kazakh",
      "roman": "polkovnik",
      "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
      "word": "полковник"
    },
    {
      "code": "km",
      "lang": "Khmer",
      "roman": "vɔɔ seenəy ʼaek",
      "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
      "word": "វរសេនីយ៍ឯក"
    },
    {
      "alt": "大領",
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "daeryeong",
      "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
      "word": "대령"
    },
    {
      "code": "kmr",
      "lang": "Northern Kurdish",
      "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
      "word": "serheng"
    },
    {
      "code": "ky",
      "lang": "Kyrgyz",
      "roman": "polkovnik",
      "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
      "word": "полковник"
    },
    {
      "code": "lo",
      "lang": "Lao",
      "roman": "phan ʼēk",
      "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
      "word": "ພັນເອກ"
    },
    {
      "code": "lv",
      "lang": "Latvian",
      "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "pulkvedis"
    },
    {
      "code": "lt",
      "lang": "Lithuanian",
      "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "pulkininkas"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "polkovnik",
      "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "полковник"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
      "word": "kolonel"
    },
    {
      "code": "mt",
      "lang": "Maltese",
      "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "kurunell"
    },
    {
      "code": "gv",
      "lang": "Manx",
      "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "curnal"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
      "word": "kānara"
    },
    {
      "code": "mr",
      "lang": "Marathi",
      "roman": "karnal",
      "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
      "word": "कर्नल"
    },
    {
      "code": "mn",
      "lang": "Mongolian",
      "roman": "xurandaa",
      "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic"
      ],
      "word": "хурандаа"
    },
    {
      "code": "mn",
      "lang": "Mongolian",
      "roman": "quraŋda",
      "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
      "tags": [
        "Mongolian"
      ],
      "word": "ᠬᠤᠷᠠᠩᠳᠠ"
    },
    {
      "code": "nrf",
      "lang": "Norman",
      "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "coronel"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "oberst"
    },
    {
      "code": "ps",
      "lang": "Pashto",
      "roman": "ḍagarwāl",
      "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ډګروال"
    },
    {
      "code": "ps",
      "lang": "Pashto",
      "roman": "karnal",
      "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
      "word": "کرنل"
    },
    {
      "code": "ps",
      "lang": "Pashto",
      "roman": "karnayl",
      "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "کرنيل"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa-ira",
      "lang": "Iranian Persian",
      "roman": "sarhang",
      "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
      "word": "سَرْهَنْگ"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa-ira",
      "lang": "Iranian Persian",
      "roman": "kolonel",
      "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
      "word": "کُلُنِل"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "pułkownik"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "coronel"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "colonel"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
      "tags": [
        "dated",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "polcovnic"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "polkóvnik",
      "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "полко́вник"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "пу̀ко̄внӣк"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "пуковница"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "pùkōvnīk"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "pukovnica"
    },
    {
      "code": "scn",
      "lang": "Sicilian",
      "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "culunnellu"
    },
    {
      "code": "scn",
      "lang": "Sicilian",
      "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "culunneḍḍu"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "plukovník"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "polkovnik"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
      "word": "polkóvnica"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "coronel"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "överste"
    },
    {
      "code": "tg",
      "lang": "Tajik",
      "roman": "polkovnik",
      "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
      "word": "полковник"
    },
    {
      "code": "tg",
      "lang": "Tajik",
      "roman": "sarhang",
      "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
      "word": "сарҳанг"
    },
    {
      "code": "tt",
      "lang": "Tatar",
      "roman": "polkownik",
      "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
      "word": "полковник"
    },
    {
      "code": "te",
      "lang": "Telugu",
      "roman": "karnal",
      "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
      "word": "కర్నల్"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "roman": "pan-èek",
      "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
      "word": "พันเอก"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
      "word": "albay"
    },
    {
      "code": "tk",
      "lang": "Turkmen",
      "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
      "word": "polkownik"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "polkóvnyk",
      "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "полко́вник"
    },
    {
      "code": "ur",
      "lang": "Urdu",
      "roman": "karnal",
      "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "کَرْنَل"
    },
    {
      "code": "ug",
      "lang": "Uyghur",
      "roman": "polkownik",
      "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
      "word": "پولكوۋنىك"
    },
    {
      "code": "ug",
      "lang": "Uyghur",
      "roman": "shangshyaw",
      "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
      "word": "شاڭشياۋ"
    },
    {
      "code": "uz",
      "lang": "Uzbek",
      "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
      "word": "polkovnik"
    },
    {
      "alt": "大佐",
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
      "word": "đại tá"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
      "word": "gyrnol"
    },
    {
      "code": "yi",
      "lang": "Yiddish",
      "roman": "polkovnik",
      "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "פּאָלקאָווניק"
    },
    {
      "code": "yi",
      "lang": "Yiddish",
      "roman": "kolonel",
      "sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "קאָלאָנעל"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Colonel (disambiguation)"
  ],
  "word": "colonel"
}

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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "culmen",
        "t": "a pillar, top, crown, summit"
      },
      "expansion": "culmen (“a pillar, top, crown, summit”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*kelH-",
        "t": "to rise, be elevated, be prominent"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *kelH- (“to rise, be elevated, be prominent”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "hill"
      },
      "expansion": "hill",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "holm"
      },
      "expansion": "holm",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "First attested 1548, from Middle French coronnel, from Old Italian colonnello (“the officer of a small company of soldiers (column) that marched at the head of a regiment”), from compagnia colonnella (“little column company”), from Latin columna (“pillar”), originally a collateral form of columen, contraction culmen (“a pillar, top, crown, summit”), o-grade form from a Proto-Indo-European *kelH- (“to rise, be elevated, be prominent”). See hill, holm.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "colonels",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "coloneling",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "colonelling",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "coloneled",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "coloneled",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "colonelled",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "colonelled",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "past2": "colonelled",
        "pres_ptc2": "colonelling"
      },
      "expansion": "colonel (third-person singular simple present colonels, present participle coloneling or colonelling, simple past and past participle coloneled or colonelled)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English intransitive verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To act as or like a colonel."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To act as or like a colonel."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkɜːnəl/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkɝnəl/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "homophone": "kernel"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɜː(ɹ)nəl"
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-colonel.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/f0/En-us-colonel.ogg/En-us-colonel.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f0/En-us-colonel.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (US)"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ],
      "word": "coronel"
    },
    {
      "word": "col."
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "abbreviation"
      ],
      "word": "Col."
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Colonel (disambiguation)"
  ],
  "word": "colonel"
}

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