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MAJOR-GENERAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does major-general mean? 

MAJOR-GENERAL (noun)
  The noun MAJOR-GENERAL has 1 sense:

1. a general officer ranking above a brigadier general and below a lieutenant generalplay

  Familiarity information: MAJOR-GENERAL used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


MAJOR-GENERAL (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A general officer ranking above a brigadier general and below a lieutenant general

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("major-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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