LIEUTENANT COLONEL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lieutenant colonel mean? 

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

1. a commissioned officer in the United States Army or Air Force or Marines holding a rank above major and below colonel

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• LIEUTENANT COLONEL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A commissioned officer in the United States Army or Air Force or Marines holding a rank above major and below colonel

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

lieutenant colonel; light colonel

Hypernyms ("lieutenant colonel" is a kind of...):

colonel (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)

Domain category:

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