Colonel - definition, pronunciation, transcription
noun
Extra examples
He retired as a colonel in the air force.
The army major was promoted to lieutenant colonel.
A general outranks a colonel.
...an autocratic Boy Scout leader who is under the delusion that he's still an army colonel...
Colonel ordered the command to halt.
She knew the colonel was easily led.
He was promoted colonel (to the rank of colonel, to be a colonel).
Colonel commands a regiment.
The colonel or commanding officer approves the sentence of a regimental court-martial.
The colonel led a successful raid against a rebel base.
The colonel was apoplectic with rage.
The song is sung to the tune of Colonel Bogey.
Blank the colonel of the regiment!
The colonel ordered the command to halt.
He had entered the army as a boy and risen to the rank of colonel by 1914.
Word forms
singular: colonel
plural: colonels
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