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ARMY OFFICER

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

An officer in the armed forces

Example:

he's a retired army officer

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("army officer" is a kind of...):

military officer; officer (any person in the armed services who holds a position of authority or command)

Domain category:

armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "army officer"):

quartermaster (an army officer who provides clothing and subsistence for troops)

Instance hyponyms:

Alfred Dreyfus; Dreyfus (French army officer of Jewish descent whose false imprisonment for treason in 1894 raised issues of anti-Semitism that dominated French politics until his release in 1906 (1859-1935))

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