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Definition: Aide-de-camp |
Aide-de-campNoun1. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Aide-de-campSynonyms: adjutant (n), aide (n). (additional references) |
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For example, Prince Andrew, Duke of York of the British Royal Family is currently the aide-de-camp to his mother, Queen Elizabeth II. Similarly, Geraud Duroc was made an aide-de-camp to Napoleon in 1796, and first aide-de-camp in 1798.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Aide-de-camp."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Auxiliary | Aide-de-camp, secretary, clerk, associate, marshal; right-hand, right-hand man, Friday, girl Friday, man Friday, gopher, gofer; candle-holder, bottle-holder; handmaid; servant; puppet, cat's-paw, jackal. |
Master | Marshal, field marshal, marechal; general, generalissimo; commander in chief, seraskier, hetman; lieutenant general, major general; colonel, lieutenant colonel, major, captain, centurion, skipper, lieutenant, first lieutenant, second lieutenant, sublieutenant, officer, staff officer, aide-de-camp, brigadier, brigade major, adjutant, jemidar, ensign, cornet, cadet, subaltern, noncommissioned officer, warrant officer; sergeant, sergeant major; color sergeant; corporal, corporal major; lance corporal, acting corporal; drum major; captain general, dizdar, knight marshal, naik, pendragon. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Aide-de-camp |
| Specialty definitions using "aide-de-camp": Flag Lieutenant. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Portrait of Louis Philippe d'Orleans, comte de Paris, Aide-de-camp, and Robert d'Orleans, duc de Chartres, Aide-de-camp, officers of the Federal Army.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Lord Raglan's Head Quarters, with Lord Raglan, Marshal Pélissier, Lord Burghersh, Spahi & Aide-de-camp of Marshal Pélissier.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Lieutenant General Sir John Campbell & Captain Hume, his aide-de-camp, the general sitting.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | General Cissé, chief of the staff to General Bosquet, & aide-de-camp.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Captain Clifford, aide-de-camp to General Buller.Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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Human Rights | Congo | In late January, the Government arrested aide-de-camp Colonel Eddy Kapend and Army General Yav Nawej. (references) |
Congo | According to the Government, Colonel Eddy Kapend, Kabila's aide-de-camp, then shot and killed Rashidi, who already had been apprehended by another guard. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Aide-de-camp" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Aide-de-camp" is used about 22 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 22 | 74,468 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "aide-de-camp"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | adjutant (adjutant, aide de camp). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | ordonnansofficier (adjutant), adjudant (Adj., Adjt., adjutant, Master Sergeant, Senior Master Sergeant, Warrant Officer II). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | adjutanto (adjutant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | adjudant. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Adjutant (adjutant, aide), Hilfsoffizier (adjutant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hawaiian | adjutant (adjutant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | adjutáns (adjutant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Irish | aidiúnach (adjutant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | aiutante (abetter, adjutant, assistant, helper, helpmate, mate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 副官 (adjutant, aide). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ふくか" (adjutant, aide), ふっか" (adjutant, aide, putting back in print, reissue). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 측근 d어 야영지. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | aide-de-campay aide-de-acampamento. (various references) адъютант (adjutant, aide, aide de camp). (various references) ayudante (abetter, adjutant, aid, aide, assistant, auxiliary, colleague, companion, consultant, contributor, counter, elf, fetish, gillie, Guardian, helper, helpmate, holder, mate), edecán (adjutant, aide de camp). (various references) adjutant (adjutant, aid de camp, aide, aide de camp). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-d-d-e-e-i-m-p" | |
-2 letters: decamped. | |
-3 letters: academe, impeded. | |
-4 letters: acedia, apiece, caddie, camped, damped, decade, decamp, decide, deiced, diadem, impede, madcap, mediad, mediae, peaced, pieced. | |
-5 letters: adeem, aecia, aided, aimed, amice, amide, apace, campi, caped, ceded, deice, diced, edema, imped, maced, media, medic, paced, peace, piece. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 69 64 65 2D 64 65 2D 63 61 6D 70 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01101001 01100100 01100101 00101101 01100100 01100101 00101101 01100011 01100001 01101101 01110000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A i d e - d e - c a m p |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0069 0064 0065 002D 0064 0065 002D 0063 0061 006D 0070 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)357570711570711569677982 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Photo Album 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Usage Frequency 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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