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Definition: Adjutant |
AdjutantNoun1. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer. 2. Large Indian stork with a military gait. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "adjutant" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1814. (references) |
Etymology: Adjutant \Ad"ju*tant\, noun. [Latin expression adjutans, present participle of adjutare to help. See Aid.]. (references) |
Synonyms: AdjutantSynonyms: adjutant bird (n), adjutant stork (n), aide (n), aide-de-camp (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Auxiliary | Noun: auxiliary; recruit; assistant; adjuvant, adjutant; ayudante, coaid; adjunct; help, helper, help mate, helping hand; midwife; colleague, partner, mate, confrere, cooperator; coadjutor, coadjutrix; collaborator. |
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: Adjutant |
| English words defined with "adjutant": Adjutancy, adjutant general, Aid-major, Argala ♦ genus Leptoptilus, Giant stork ♦ Hair-crested stork ♦ Leptoptilus. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "adjutant": Adjutancy. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Adjutant" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Albanian (adjutant, aide de camp, aide-de-camp), French (adjutant, aide-de-camp), German (adjutant, aide, aide-de-camp), Hawaiian (adjutant, aide-de-camp), Romanian (adjutant), Swedish (adjutant, aid de camp, aide, aide de camp, aide-de-camp). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Der Adjutant (1972) Adjutant seiner Hoheit (1933) Der Adjutant des Zaren (1929) | |
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 | U. S. Army Hospital Number 101, St. Nazaire, France. : Adjutant officer in his office with personnel. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Issued 16 May 1919 to Yeoman First Class (F) Fedora Bianchi, USNRF, in recognition of her Naval service during World War I. It is signed by Governor Calvin Coolidge and State Adjutant General Jesse F. Stevens. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Robert B. Hurt, Jr. Adjutant, 55th Tenn. Inf. Regt. C.S.A.--Killed at the battle of Franklin. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Portrait of Brig. Gen. Edward D. Townsend, Assistant Adjutant General. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Antietam, Md. Col. John S. Crocker, Lt. Col. Benjamin C. Butler, and adjutant of 93d New York Volunteers. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | A general and adjutant, shores of Antibes. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | 36th Medical Training Battalion, Camp Grant, Illinois; Major Thair C. Rich, M.T. Battalion Commander; Capt. Harold J. Reugh, M.A.C. Adjutant; Capt. Bruce N. Balding, M.C. Executive Officer. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Artillery Hill, Camp Wheeler, Macon, Ga.; Commanding General, Kernan; Adjutant General, A. P. Gardner. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Brigade of infantry, Texas City, Texas; Brig. Gen. Hunter Liggett, commanding; Major L.L. Durfee, adjutant. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | 119th Infantry, Col. F. LeJ. Parker, commanding, Capt. John H. Manning, adjutant, Camp Sevier, S.C., March 8th, 1918. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | He was a convict I saw twenty years ago, when I was adjutant of the galley guard at Toulon |
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Civil Liberties | Burkina Faso | Following the National Day of Pardon on March 30, former Presidential Guard Adjutant Hyacinthe Kafando, who had fled the country in 1996 under suspicion of involvement in a coup attempt against President Compaore, returned to the country. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Adjutant" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 79.84% of the time. "Adjutant" is used about 129 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) | 79.84% | 103 | 32,137 |
| Noun (proper) | 20.16% | 26 | 68,323 |
| Total | 100.00% | 129 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "adjutant" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Adjutant | Last name | 100 | 75,636 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "adjutant": adjutant bird ♦ Adjutant general ♦ adjutant stork ♦ personnel adjutant. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "adjutant": adjutant-general, adjutant-stork. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
adjutant | 23 |
adjutant general | 18 |
adjutant general texas | 6 |
adjutant corps general | 6 |
adjutant general office | 4 |
adjutant general school | 3 |
adjutant department general texas | 3 |
adjutant general ohio | 3 |
adjutant call | 3 |
adjutant church | 2 |
adjutant general iowa | 2 |
adjutant army general | 2 |
adjutant general indiana | 2 |
adjutant general state | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "adjutant"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | adjutant (aide de camp, aide-de-camp). (various references) | |
Arabic | ضابط مساعد أول, المعاون (assistant, helper, lender, second), أبو سعن طائر من اللقالق. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | вид голям индийски щъркел (adjutant bird), адютант (aide, aide de camp). (various references) | |
Chinese | 副官 (subaltern). (various references) | |
Czech | poboèník (Adc, aide de camp, galloper). (various references) | |
Dutch | adjudant (aide-de-camp), ordonnansofficier (aide-de-camp). (various references) | |
Esperanto | adjutanto (aide-de-camp). (various references) | |
Farsi | یاور (Aid, Assist, Assistant, Helper), یار (Adjunct, Billy, Buddy, Chummy, Friend, Helper, Helpmate, Mistress, Pal, Paramour, Partner, Playmate, Sweetheart, Turtledove, Yokefellow), مساعد (Auspicious, Propitious), معین (Accessory, Ally, Ancillary, Auxiliary, Definite, Given, Positive, Precise, Punctual, Regular, Specific, Standard, Subsidiary), کمک (Aid, Ancillary, Assist, Assistance, Avail, Hand, Help, Helper, Helpmeet, Mate, Relief, Second, Service, Subservience, Succor, Support), اجودان . (various references) | |
French | adjudant (adjudant). (various references) | |
German | Adjutant (aide, aide-de-camp). (various references) | |
Greek | υπερασπιστήσ (champion, vindicator), υπασπιστήσ (aid, aide, flag lieutenant), υπασπιστής. (various references) | |
Hawaiian | adjutant (aide-de-camp). (various references) | |
Hebrew | שליש (aide, aide de camp), ושא כלים (armour bearer, batman, commentary, disciple, henchman, right hand man, squire). (various references) | |
Hungarian | adjutáns (aide-de-camp), szárnysegéd (Adc, aide de camp, aide-de-camp, aides-de-camp, doggie), segédtiszt (Adc, aide, aide de camp, Ma, military assistant, personnel adjutant). (various references) | |
Indonesian | ajudan (aide, chief petty officer). (various references) | |
Irish | aidiúnach (aide-de-camp). (various references) | |
Italian | aiutante (abetter, aide-de-camp, assistant, helper, helpmate, mate). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 副官 (aide, aide-de-camp). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ふくか" (aide, aide-de-camp), ふっか" (aide, aide-de-camp, putting back in print, reissue). (various references) | |
Korean | 부관. (various references) | |
Manx | fer coonee (aider, ally, auxiliary, collaborator, confederate, helper, relief), co-yantagh (adjutancy), cooneyder (assistant, help). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | adjutantay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | ajudante de campo (aide-de-camp, galloper), ajudante (accessary, acolyte, aid, aide, assistant, candle-holder, handy man, helper, helpmate, helpmeet, improver, second, subsidiary). (various references) | |
Romanian | ajutor (abettor, accommodation, accomplice, adjoint, adjunct, adjutancy, adjuvant, adminicle, aid, ancillary, assistance, assistant, auxiliary, backer, backing, collaboration, contribution, co-operation, deputy, easement, fire, friend, furtherance, help, helper, helpfulness, helping, mate, means, ministrant, office, redress, refuge, relief, remedy, rescue, salvation, saver, second, service, sos, staff, stand by, stead, succor, succour, support, supporter, sustainer, upholder), aghiotant (aide de camp), adjutant, marabu (marabou). (various references) | |
Russian | адъютант (aide, aide de camp, aide-de-camp). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | ađutant (aide). (various references) | |
Spanish | edecán (aide de camp, aide-de-camp), ayudante (abetter, aid, aide, aide-de-camp, assistant, auxiliary, colleague, companion, consultant, contributor, counter, elf, fetish, gillie, Guardian, helper, helpmate, holder, mate). (various references) | |
Swedish | adjutant (aid de camp, aide, aide de camp, aide-de-camp). (various references) | |
Turkish | yaver (adjt, aid de camp, aide, aide de camp, batman), emir subayı (adjt, aid de camp, aide, aide de camp). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | асистент (assistant, dresser), ад'ютант (aide, aide de camp), помічник (acolyte, adjunct, adjuvant, aid, ally, assistant, auxiliary, candle holder, contributor, help, helper, helpmate, second, secondary, seconder, subsidiary, tender). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | adjutant crane. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | optio, optionem. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "adjutant": adjutants. (additional references) | |
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"Adjutant" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: adjuant, Arjumand. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "adjutant" (pronounced a"jutunt) |
| 5 | -u t u n t | competent, concomitant, impotent, exorbitant, hesitant, incompetent, inhabitant, irritant, militant, omnipotent, penitent. |
| 4 | -t u n t | accountant, assistant, blatant, combatant, consistent, constant, consultant, contestant, important, inadvertent, decongestant, disinfectant, distant, existent, expectant, extant, exultant, inconsistent, insistent, instant, intermittent, latent, mutant, noncombatant, nonexistent, patent, persistent, pollutant, potent, protestant, reluctant, repentant, resistant, resultant, surfactant, unimportant, unrepentant. |
| 3 | -u n t | agent, aggrandizement, agreement, ailment, alignment, allotment, amazement, ambient, ambivalent, amendment, amusement, ancient, announcement, annulment, antecedent, antidepressant, antigovernment, antioxidant, apartment, apparent, appeasement, applicant, appointment, apportionment, ardent, argent, argument, armament, arraignment, arrangement, arrant, arrogant, absent, absorbent, abstinent, abundant, accelerant, accident, accompaniment, accomplishment, abandonment, abatement, aberrant, abhorrent, abortifacient, accouterment, achievement, acknowledgement, acknowledgment, adamant, adherent, adjacent, adjournment, adjustment, adolescent, adornment, advancement, advertisement, advisement, afferent, affiant, affluent, ascendant, aspirant, assailant, assessment, assignment, assortment, astonishment, astringent, atonement, attachment, attainment, attendant, banishment, basement, battlement, belligerent, bemusement, beneficent, benevolent, bereavement, betterment, bewilderment, blandishment, bombardment, brilliant, buoyant, celebrant, claimant, clairvoyant, Clement, client, coefficient, cogent, cognizant, coherent, coincident, commandment, commencement, commitment, compartment, complacent, complainant, complaisant, complement, compliant, component, comportment, concealment, concurrent, condiment, confident, confinement, confluent, consequent, consignment, consonant, constituent, containment, contaminant, contentment, continent, contingent, convalescent, convenient, convent, convergent, conversant, coolant, copayment, corespondent, cormorant, correspondent, Courant, covenant, Crescent, crosscurrent, current, curtailment, ignorant, immanent, immigrant, imminent, impairment, impatient, impeachment, impediment, impertinent, implement, impoundment, impoverishment, impressment, imprisonment, improvement, imprudent, incandescent, debarment, debasement, decadent, decedent, decent, declarant, defendant, deferment, defiant, deficient, defoliant, delinquent, deodorant, department, dependent, deployment, deportment, depressant, derailment, descendant, descendent, despondent, detachment, detergent, determent, determinant, deterrent, detriment, development, deviant, different, diligent, diminishment, disagreement, disappointment, disarmament, disbarment, disbursement, discernment, discordant, discouragement, disenchantment, disenfranchisement, disengagement, disestablishment, disgruntlement, disillusionment, disinvestment, dismantlement, dismemberment, disobedient, dispersant, displacement, dissident, dissonant, divalent, divergent, divestment, docent, dominant, dormant, easement, ebullient, efferent, effervescent, efficient, effluent, elegant, element, elephant, eloquent, embankment, embarrassment, embayment, embellishment, embezzlement, embodiment, emergent, emigrant, eminent, emplacement, employment, empowerment, enactment, encampment, enchantment, encirclement, encouragement, encroachment, endangerment, endearment, endorsement, endowment, enforcement, engagement, enhancement, enjoyment, enlargement, enlightenment, enlistment, enrichment, enrollment, enslavement, entanglement, entertainment, enticement, entitlement, entombment, entrant, entrapment, entrenchment, environment, equipment, equivalent, errant, escapement, escarpment, esculent, establishment, estrangement, evanescent, evident, excellent, excitement, excrement, exigent, expectorant, expedient, experiment, exponent, extinguishment, extravagant, exuberant, Fabricant, fervent, figment, filament, flagrant, flamboyant, flatulent, flippant, fluent, fluorescent, formant, fragment, fragrant, fraudulent, frequent, fulfillment, gallant, garment, garnishment, giant, government, grandiloquent, grandparent, harassment, hydrant, incessant, incident, incipient, incitement, inclement, incoherent, incontinent, inconvenient, increment, incumbent, indecent, independent, indictment, indifferent, indigent, indignant, indolent, inducement, indulgent, inefficient, infant, informant, infotainment, infrequent, infringement, ingredient, inhalant, inherent, innocent, inpatient, insignificant, insolent, insolvent, installment, instrument, insufficient, insurgent, integument, intelligent, intercurrent, interdependent, internment, intersegment, intolerant, intransigent, invariant, investment, involvement, iridescent, irrelevant, irreverent, itinerant, jubilant, judgement, judgment, leant, lenient, lieutenant, ligament, litigant, lubricant, lucent, luminescent, luxuriant, magnificent, malevolent, malignant, maltreatment, management, measurement, merchant, micromanagement, migrant, miscreant, misgovernment, misjudgment, mismanagement, misstatement, mistreatment, moment, monovalent, monument, mordant, movement, nascent, negligent, nongovernment, nonmanagement, nonpayment, nonresident, nonviolent, nourishment, nutrient, obedient, observant, obsolescent, occupant, odorant, ointment, omnipresent, omniscient, operant, opponent, opulent, ornament, orpiment, outpatient, outplacement, overconfident, overpayment, overstatement, oxidant, pageant, parchment, parent, parliament, participant, patient, pavement, payment, peasant, penchant, pendant, pennant, percipient, permanent, pertinent, petulant, pheasant, pigment, piquant, placement, pleasant, pliant, poignant, postponement, postretirement, preadolescent, precedent, predicament, predominant, preeminent, pregnant, prejudgment, prepayment, prescient, present, presentment, prevalent, procurement, proficient, prominent, pronouncement, propellant, proponent, provident, prudent, prurient, pungent, punishment, pursuant, puzzlement, quadrant, quiescent, quotient, radiant, rampant, readjustment, reagent, realignment, reappointment, reapportionment, rearmament, rearrangement, reassessment, reassignment, recalcitrant, recent, recipient, recombinant, recruitment, recurrent, redeployment, redevelopment, redundant, reemployment, reenactment, refinement, refreshment, refrigerant, refurbishment, Regent, regiment, registrant, reimbursement, reinforcement, reinstatement, reinvestment, relevant, reliant, reminiscent, remnant, repayment, repellent, replacement, replenishment, repugnant, requirement, resentment, resettlement, resident, resilient, resonant, resplendent, respondent, restatement, resurgent, retardant, reticent, retirement, retrenchment, reverent, rodent, rudiment, ruminant, sacrament, salient, seafront, sealant, sediment, segment, semipermanent, sentiment, Sequent, sergeant, serpent, servant, settlement, shipment, significant, silent, solvent, somnolent, stagnant, statement, stimulant, strident, stringent, student, subcontinent, subsequent, subservient, succulent, sufficient, supergiant, superintendent, supplement, supplicant, suppressant, talent, tangent, temperament, tenant, tenement, testament, tetravalent, tolerant, torrent, tournament, transcendent, transient, translucent, transparent, treatment, trenchant, trident, triumphant, truant, truculent, tumescent, turbulent, tyrant, undercurrent, underdevelopment, underemployment, undergarment, underpayment, understatement, unemployment, unpleasant, urgent, vacant, vagrant, valiant, variant, vehement, verdant, vibrant, vigilant, violent, virulent, warrant, wonderment. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-d-j-n-t-t-u" | |
-3 letters: daunt, jaunt, junta, taunt. | |
-4 letters: anta, aunt, data, daut, dunt, nada, taut, tuna. | |
-5 letters: ana, and, ant, att, dun, jun, jut, nut, tad, taj, tan, tat, tau, tun, tut, uta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-d-j-n-t-t-u" | |
+1 letter: adjutants. | |
+4 letters: adjustmental. | |
+5 letters: maladjustment. | |
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