MAJOR-GENERAL

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A general officer ranking above a brigadier general and below a lieutenant general

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("major-general" is a kind of...):

general officer (officers in the Army or Air Force or Marines above the rank of colonel)

Domain category:

armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)

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