BRIGADIER meaning: Military rank above colonel, below

We found 21 dictionaries that define the word brigadier:

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brigadier: Merriam-Webster
brigadier: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
brigadier: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
brigadier: Collins English Dictionary
brigadier: Vocabulary.com
Brigadier, brigadier: Wordnik
brigadier: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
brigadier: Wiktionary
brigadier: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
brigadier: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
brigadier: Infoplease Dictionary
brigadier: Dictionary.com
Brigadier (Australia), Brigadier (French military rank), Brigadier (Sri Lanka), Brigadier (UK), Brigadier (United Kingdom), Brigadier (disambiguation), Brigadier, The Brigadier (newspaper), The Brigadier: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
brigadier: Rhymezone
brigadier: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
brigadier: FreeDictionary.org
brigadier: Mnemonic Dictionary
brigadier: TheFreeDictionary.com
brigadier: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ noun:  (military) An army rank; an officer commanding a brigade.
▸ noun:  (military, UK) A field officer of the highest grade, below general officers, NATO grade O7.
▸ noun:  (historical) The head of a workforce in the Soviet Union.
▸ noun:  Ellipsis of brigadier general. [(military) A military officer who commands a brigade.]

Opposite:

private, general, colonel, major, lieutenant

Types:

general, colonel, lieutenant colonel, major, more...

Phrases:

brigadier general, brigadier generals, Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, Brigadier Gerard, more...

Adjectives:

senior, new, young, british, old, confederate, retired, brevet, gallant, former, acting

Colors:

olive, khaki, gold, crimson, scarlet, more...

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