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MILITARY OFFICER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does military officer mean? 

MILITARY OFFICER (noun)
  The noun MILITARY OFFICER has 1 sense:

1. any person in the armed services who holds a position of authority or commandplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


MILITARY OFFICER (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Any person in the armed services who holds a position of authority or command

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

military officer; officer

Context example:

an officer is responsible for the lives of his men

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

man; military man; military personnel; serviceman (someone who serves in the armed forces; a member of a military force)

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 "military officer"):

adjutant; aide; aide-de-camp (an officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer)

army officer (an officer in the armed forces)

brass hat (a high-ranking military officer)

chief of staff (the senior officer of a service of the armed forces)

commandant; commander; commanding officer (an officer in command of a military unit)

commissioned officer (a military officer holding a commission)

desk officer (a military officer who is not assigned to active duty)

executive officer (the officer second in command)

inspector general (a military officer responsible for investigations)

military adviser; military advisor (a military officer who serves as an adviser to the troops of an allied nation)

naval officer (an officer in the navy)

enlisted officer; noncom; noncommissioned officer (a military officer appointed from enlisted personnel)

warrant officer (holds rank by virtue of a warrant)

Grigori Aleksandrovich Potemkin; Grigori Potemkin; Grigori Potyokin; Potemkin; Potyokin (a Russian officer and politician who was a favorite of Catherine II and in 1762 helped her to seize power; when she visited the Crimea in 1787 he gave the order for sham villages to be built (1739-1791))


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