COLONEL


Meaning of COLONEL in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

full professor/member/colonel etc

Only full members have the right to vote.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

full

McCormack himself was given a direct commission as a full colonel and entered active duty as deputy chief under Clarke.

During that time I went from captain to full colonel .

A squad of full colonels was halted near Billy.

■ NOUN

army

They were army colonels in an economic army doing what their generals told them to do.

lieutenant

One 12-year-old boy arrived, claiming to be a lieutenant colonel .

She is a nice enough lady whose husband is a lieutenant colonel , U. S. Army, retired.

He found the lieutenant colonel , although only touching fifty, almost impossibly grand.

He landed at night, and was met at base ops by a lieutenant colonel .

He had been a lieutenant colonel in public relations in Baltimore.

Similarly, the army, when faced with a budget cut, never points the finger at desk-bound lieutenant colonels .

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

lieutenant colonel/general/Governor etc

He found the lieutenant colonel, although only touching fifty, almost impossibly grand.

He had been a lieutenant colonel in public relations in Baltimore.

He landed at night, and was met at base ops by a lieutenant colonel.

He retired, still a lieutenant general, in 1972.

One 12-year-old boy arrived, claiming to be a lieutenant colonel.

She is a nice enough lady whose husband is a lieutenant colonel, U. S. Army, retired.

Short was a three-star lieutenant general commanding the Army in Hawaii.

Three years as a legislative liaison, six years in the state senate, four tedious years as lieutenant governor.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

An elderly colonel with a steel gray crew cut stood to one side, ready to intervene if the questioning got difficult.

At the end, Rakovsky opened a bottle of his favourite Scotch whisky and offered a drink to the young colonel .

Back in his office he put through a call to the colonel .

During that time I went from captain to full colonel .

In 1623 he was deputy lieutenant in Cambridgeshire, and in 1625, a colonel of the Suffolk regiments defending the coasts.

Similarly, the army, when faced with a budget cut, never points the finger at desk-bound lieutenant colonels.

The ghosts of retired colonels haunt some of Torquay's menus.

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