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MAJOR-GENERAL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does major-general mean?
• MAJOR-GENERAL (noun)
The noun MAJOR-GENERAL has 1 sense:
1. a general officer ranking above a brigadier general and below a lieutenant general
Familiarity information: MAJOR-GENERAL used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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