NONCOMMISSIONED OFFICER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does noncommissioned officer mean? 

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

1. a military officer appointed from enlisted personnel

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• NONCOMMISSIONED OFFICER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A military officer appointed from enlisted personnel

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

enlisted officer; noncom; noncommissioned officer

Hypernyms ("noncommissioned 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 "noncommissioned officer"):

aircraftman; aircraftsman (a noncommissioned officer in the British Royal Air Force)

bombardier (a noncommissioned officer in the British artillery)

chief petty officer (a person with the senior noncommissioned naval rank)

corporal (a noncommissioned officer in the Army or Air Force or Marines)

drill instructor; drill master (a noncommissioned officer who instructs recruits in military marching and discipline)

lance corporal (an enlisted man in the marine corps ranking above a private first class and below a corporal)

P.O.; petty officer; PO (a noncommissioned officer in the Navy or Coast Guard with a rank comparable to sergeant in the Army)

sergeant (any of several noncommissioned officer ranks in the Army or Air Force or Marines ranking above a corporal)