Word Meanings - BRIGADIERGENERAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An officer in rank next above a colonel, and below a major general. He commands a brigade, and is sometimes called, by a shortening of his title, simple a brigadier.

• Generalness
  The condition or quality of being general; frequency; commonness.
• Shortened /
  of Shorten
• Titler
  A large truncated cone of refined sugar.
• Callipee
  See Calipee.
• Callyciflorous
  Having the petals and stamens adnate to the calyx; -- applied to a subclass of dicotyledonous plants in the system of the French botanist Candolle.
• Generalship
  The office of a general; the exercise of the functions of a general; -- sometimes, with the possessive pronoun, the personality of a general.
• Shortening
  of Shorten
• ABOVECITED
  Cited before, in the preceding part of a book or writing.
• Callipers
  See Calipers.
• Colonel
  The chief officer of a regiment; an officer ranking next above a lieutenant colonel and next below a brigadier general.
• Generalty
  Generality.
• Shorten
  To make short or shorter in measure, extent, or time; as, to shorten distance; to shorten a road; to shorten days of calamity.
• ABOVEMENTIONEDABOVENAMED
  Mentioned or named before; aforesaid.
• Callisection
  Painless vivisection; -- opposed to sentisection.
• Colonelcy
  The office, rank, or commission of a colonel.

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