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Admiral
noun · 78% connection
A naval officer of the highest rank; a naval officer of high rank, of which there are different grades. The chief gradations in rank a…
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Ambulance
noun · 78% connection
A field hospital, so organized as to follow an army in its movements, and intended to succor the wounded as soon as possible. Often us…
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Baron
noun · 78% connection
A title or degree of nobility; originally, the possessor of a fief, who had feudal tenants under him; in modern times, in France and G…
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Brigade
noun · 78% connection
A body of troops, whether cavalry, artillery, infantry, or mixed, consisting of two or more regiments, under the command of a brigadie…
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Brigadier general
unknown · 78% connection
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…
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Captain
noun · 78% connection
The military officer who commands a company, troop, or battery, or who has the rank entitling him to do so though he may be employed o…
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Colonel
noun · 78% connection
The chief officer of a regiment; an officer ranking next above a lieutenant colonel and next below a brigadier general.
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Commander
noun · 78% connection
An officer who ranks next below a captain, -- ranking with a lieutenant colonel in the army.
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Commodore
noun · 78% connection
An officer who ranks next above a captain; sometimes, by courtesy, the senior captain of a squadron. The rank of commodore corresponds…
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Corporal
noun · 78% connection
A noncommissioned officer, next below a sergeant. In the United States army he is the lowest noncommissioned officer in a company of i…
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Corps
n. sing. & pl. · 78% connection
A body of men; esp., an organized division of the military establishment; as, the marine corps; the corps of topographical engineers;…
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Devolve
verb · 78% connection
To pass by transmission or succession; to be handed over or down; -- generally with on or upon, sometimes with to or into; as, after t…
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Disobey
verb · 78% connection
Not to obey; to neglect or refuse to obey (a superior or his commands, the laws, etc.); to transgress the commands of (one in authorit…
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Ensign
noun · 78% connection
A commissioned officer of the lowest grade in the navy, corresponding to the grade of second lieutenant in the army.
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Fission
noun · 78% connection
A method of asexual reproduction among the lowest (unicellular) organisms by means of a process of self-division, consisting of gradua…
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Flank
noun · 78% connection
The side of an army, or of any division of an army, as of a brigade, regiment, or battalion; the extreme right or left; as, to attack…
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General
adjective · 78% connection
One of the chief military officers of a government or country; the commander of an army, of a body of men not less than a brigade. In…
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Grenadier
noun · 78% connection
Originaly, a soldier who carried and threw grenades; afterward, one of a company attached to each regiment or battalion, taking post o…
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