Colonel and Officer

Colonel

Colonel noun - A commissioned military officer in the United States Army or Air Force or Marines who ranks above a lieutenant colonel and below a brigadier general.
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Synonyms for Colonel

Officer and colonel are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Officer" instead a noun "Colonel".

Nearby Word: colonelcy

Officer

Officer noun - A member of a force charged with law enforcement at the local level.
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Synonyms for Officer

Colonel and officer are semantically related. You can use "Colonel" instead a noun "Officer".

Nearby Words: official, office, officered, officering

Both words in one sentence

  • Sycophantic Servant Colonel Klink of Hogan's Heroes does this to pretty much every officer that walks in the door, General Burkhalter especially.
  • Colonel Badass He wasn't a colonel, but as an officer, he was viewed this way by the enlisted men because of the things he said and did.
  • The Neidermeyer Colonel Jannings, who smugly says that the Della Norte Dam that the Americans want to destroy is impregnable, over the objections of Wehrmacht officer Captain von Hecht.
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