Colonel
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
colonel /ˈkəːn(ə)l/
▶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.
– derivatives
colonelcy noun (pl. colonelcies).
colonelcy noun (pl. colonelcies).
– origin C16: from obs. Fr. coronel, from Ital. colonnello ‘column of soldiers’.
'Colonel' also found in these Oxford entries:
blimp
- brigadier
- brigadier general
- Col.
- colonel
- field officer
- Lewis gun
- lieutenant colonel
- major
- negus
- St Leger
