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LIEUTENANT GENERAL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does lieutenant general mean?
• LIEUTENANT GENERAL (noun)
The noun LIEUTENANT GENERAL has 1 sense:
1. a general officer ranking above a major general and below a full general
Familiarity information: LIEUTENANT GENERAL used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A general officer ranking above a major general and below a full general
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("lieutenant general" is a kind of...):
general officer (officers in the Army or Air Force or Marines above the rank of colonel)
Domain category:
armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)
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