colonel
Meaning of colonel
noun
a rank of officer in the army and in the US air force, above a lieutenant colonel and below a brigadier or brigadier general.
mid 16th century: from obsolete French coronel (earlier form of colonel ), from Italian colonnello ‘column of soldiers’, from colonna ‘column’, from Latin columna . The form coronel, source of the modern pronunciation, was usual until the mid 17th century.
Information about colonel
- It is a name.
- The plural form of colonel is: colonels.
- Languages in which colonel is used:
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Hyphenation of colonel
colonel
- It consists of 1 syllables and 7 chars.
- colonel is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
Translation of colonel
- French: colonel
- Italian: colonnello
- Portuguese: coronel
- Spanish: coronel
Words that rhyme with colonel
inconel, Leonel, jargonel, mangonel, Lionel, lionel, Jonel, Colonel, Monel, monel, Coronel, Didronel, Ronel, chevronel, cioteronel, coronel, cronel, dronel, petronel, Actonel, centonel
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