ARMY OFFICER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does army officer mean? 

• ARMY OFFICER (noun)
  The noun ARMY OFFICER has 1 sense:

1. an officer in the armed forces

  Familiarity information: ARMY OFFICER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ARMY OFFICER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An officer in the armed forces

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Context example:

he's a retired army officer

Hypernyms ("army officer" is a kind of...):

military officer; officer (any person in the armed services who holds a position of authority or command)

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 "army officer"):

quartermaster (an army officer who provides clothing and subsistence for troops)

Instance hyponyms:

Alfred Dreyfus; Dreyfus (French army officer of Jewish descent whose false imprisonment for treason in 1894 raised issues of anti-Semitism that dominated French politics until his release in 1906 (1859-1935))

 Context examples 

The army officer he found good-natured and simple, a healthy, wholesome young fellow, content to occupy the place in life into which birth and luck had flung him.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Thus, in addition to the cousins Dorothy and Florence, Martin encountered two university professors, one of Latin, the other of English; a young army officer just back from the Philippines, one-time school-mate of Ruth's; a young fellow named Melville, private secretary to Joseph Perkins, head of the San Francisco Trust Company; and finally of the men, a live bank cashier, Charles Hapgood, a youngish man of thirty-five, graduate of Stanford University, member of the Nile Club and the Unity Club, and a conservative speaker for the Republican Party during campaigns—in short, a rising young man in every way.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)