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COLONEL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A commissioned military officer in the United States Army or Air Force or Marines who ranks above a lieutenant colonel and below a brigadier general
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("colonel" is a kind of...):
commissioned military officer (a commissioned officer in the Army or Air Force or Marine Corps)
Domain category:
armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "colonel"):
lieutenant colonel; light colonel (a commissioned officer in the United States Army or Air Force or Marines holding a rank above major and below colonel)
Context examples:
I am not in the least provoked at the sight of a lawyer, a pickpocket, a colonel, a fool, a lord, a gamester, a politician, a whoremonger, a physician, an evidence, a suborner, an attorney, a traitor, or the like; this is all according to the due course of things: but when I behold a lump of deformity and diseases, both in body and mind, smitten with pride, it immediately breaks all the measures of my patience; neither shall I be ever able to comprehend how such an animal, and such a vice, could tally together.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Daisy March—father a colonel in the army—one of our first families, but reverses of fortune, you know; intimate friends of the Laurences; sweet creature, I assure you; my Ned is quite wild about her.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Colonel Ross, who had shown some signs of impatience at my companion’s quiet and systematic method of work, glanced at his watch.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
"Surely, colonel," cried Lady Ingram, "you would not encourage such a low impostor? Dismiss her, by all means, at once!"
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Colonel Wallis had known Mr Elliot long, had been well acquainted also with his wife, had perfectly understood the whole story.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
Colonel Brandon rose up and went to them without knowing what he did.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Colonel Lysander Stark stopped at last before a low door, which he unlocked.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Colonel Moran sprang forward with a snarl of rage, but the constables dragged him back.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Colonel Forster will, I dare say, do everything in his power to satisfy us on this head.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
Colonel Sebastian Moran has also been known to warble it.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
