COLONEL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does colonel mean? 

• COLONEL (noun)
  The noun COLONEL has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: COLONEL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COLONEL (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:

Nouns denoting people

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 

Colonel Ross leaned back with his arms folded and his hat tilted over his eyes, while I listened with interest to the dialogue of the two detectives.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Colonel Wallis! you are acquainted with him?

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Colonel Dent and Mr. Eshton argue on politics; their wives listen.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Colonel Brandon is so delicate a man, that he rather wished any one to announce his intentions to Mr. Ferrars than himself.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Colonel Campbell rather preferred an olive.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

I was seen by the sentinel, who would, I knew, direct the colonel’s attention to my presence.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

One day—it was in March, 1883—a letter with a foreign stamp lay upon the table in front of the colonel’s plate.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Colonel Forster did own that he had often suspected some partiality, especially on Lydia's side, but nothing to give him any alarm.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Colonel Walter died in prison towards the end of the second year of his sentence.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Colonel of a damned dragoon regiment under the orders of my own younger brother.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)