Lieutenant General

  

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Lieutenant General

Definition: Lieutenant General

Lieutenant General

Noun

1. A general officer ranking above a major general and below a full general.

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Specialty Definitions: Lieutenant General

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Public Administration

General Officer, category OF-8, Army, UK. Source: European Union. (references)

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Specialty Definition: Lieutenant General

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Lieutenant General is a military rank used in many countries.

In the United States Army, Air Force and Marine Corps, a lieutenant general is a three-star general. The comparable rank in the US Navy is Vice Admiral.

See also: wiktionary definition of General. Comparative military ranks

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Lieutenant General."

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Synonyms within Context: Lieutenant General

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

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.

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Crosswords: Lieutenant General

English words defined with "lieutenant general": colonelMajor general, major-general. (references)
Specialty definitions using "lieutenant general": Poyning's Law. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Lieutenant General

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Books

  • A Man Under Orders: Lieutenant General William K. Harrison, Jr. (reference)

  • Australian Brass : The Career of Lieutenant General Sir Horace Robertson (reference)

  • Call Out the Guard!: The Story of Lieutenant General John B. Conaway and the Modern Day National Guard. (Limited) (reference)

  • Memoirs of Lieutenant General Scott (Select Bibliographies Reprint Series) (reference)

  • The Amazing Mr. Doolittle; A Biography of Lieutenant General James H. Doolittle. (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Photo Album: Lieutenant General

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Ambrose P. Hill Confederate Lieutenant General Head of Coast Survey Drawing Division from 1855-1861.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Lieutenant General Paul V. Hester and Mr Douglas Smith.

With other flag and general officers, at CinCPac Headquarters, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, circa 1944. Those present are (left to right): Admiral Nimitz; Lieutenant General Delos C. Emmons, U.S. Army; Vice Admiral Frank Jack Fletcher, USN; Admiral Raymond A. Spruance, USN and Lieutenant General Simon Bolivar Buckner, U.S. Army.Credit: NAVY.

Receives the congratulations of Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox, upon being presented with the Distinguished Service Medal in recognition of his service as Commandant of the Marine Corps from 1 December 1936 to 1 January 1944. The presentation took place in Secretary Knox' office on 12 April 1944. Looking on are Lieutenant General Alexander A. Vandegrift, Commandant of the Marine Corps (right) and Colonel James Roosevelt.Credit: NAVY.

Lieutenant General Walter Bedell Smith, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing front, in uniform] / U.S. Army Signal Corps.Credit: Library of Congress.

Lieutenant General Mark W. Clark, Commanding General of the United States Fifth Army, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing left.Credit: Library of Congress.

Allied military conference in India. Following a session of the Allied military conferences held recently in India, two of the U.S. Army delegates stop to chat. At left is Lieutenant General Brehon Somervell, in command of Service of Supply for the U.S. A.Credit: Library of Congress.

Top-ranking Anglo-American army officials meet in New Delhi, India. Left to right: Field Marshal Sir Archibald Wavell; Lieutenant General Joseph W. Stilwell, commanding all U.S. Army troops in China, Burma, and India; Lieutenant General H.H. "Hap" Arnold,.Credit: Library of Congress.

Lieutenant General Pennefather & orderly.Credit: Library of Congress.

Lieutenant General Barnard, C.B., Captain Barnard & servants.Credit: Library of Congress.

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Familiar Quotations: Lieutenant General

AuthorQuotation

Lieutenant General Lewis B. Hershey

Any recruiter will tell you that the incentive for enlistment is that it [being drafted] is inevitable if you don't.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Lieutenant General

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Economic History

Democratic Republic of Congo

Unrest and rebellion plagued the government until 1965, when Lieutenant General Mobutu, by then commander in chief of the national army, again seized control of the country and declared himself president for 5 years. (references)

Political Economy

Sudan

The 1989 military coup that overthrew Sudan's democratically elected government brought to power Lieutenant General Omar Hassan Al-Bashir and his National Salvation Revolution Command Council (RCC). Bashir and the RCC suspended the 1985 Constitution, abrogated press freedom, and disbanded all political parties and trade unions. (references)

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Modern Translations: Lieutenant General

Language Translations for "lieutenant general"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

Gjneral-lejtnant. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏فريق في الجيش, ‏فريق (party, squad, team). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

"енерал-лейтенант. (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

中將 (air marshal, vice admiral). (various references)

   

Czech

  

generálporuèík. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

luitenant-generaal (Air Marshall). (various references)

   

French

  

général de corps d'armée. (various references)

   

German

  

Generalleutnant (Air Marshall). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

αντιστρατηγόσ, αντιπτεράρχοσ (air marshal). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

רב אלוף (general). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

Fõparancsnok (commander in chief, general-in-chief, generalissimo), Altábornagy (air marshal, brigadier general, lieutenant-general, lt. gen.). (various references)

   

Italian

  

tenente generale. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

陸将 (general), 中将 (vice-admiral). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

りくしょう (army minister, general), ちゅうじょう (in the shape of a pillar or column, inner feelings, true heart, vice-admiral). (various references)

   

Manx

  

aaghineraal. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ieutenantlay eneralgay

   

Portuguese

  

capitão de fragata. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

general locotenent. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

Наместник, "енерал-лейтенант. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

general-pukovnik (colonel-general). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

teniente general (air marshal). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

Generallöjtnant (air marshal). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

korgeneral (air marshal). (various references)

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Anagrams: Lieutenant General

Proper Noun Anagrams

 Words containing the letters "a-a-e-e-e-e-g-i-l-l-n-n-n-r-t-t-u"
 

+1 letter: Lieutenant-general.

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Alternative Orthography: Lieutenant General


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4C 69 65 75 74 65 6E 61 6E 74      47 65 6E 65 72 61 6C

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001100 01101001 01100101 01110101 01110100 01100101 01101110 01100001 01101110 01110100 00100000 01000111 01100101 01101110 01100101 01110010 01100001 01101100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#76 &#105 &#101 &#117 &#116 &#101 &#110 &#97 &#110 &#116 &#32 &#71 &#101 &#110 &#101 &#114 &#97 &#108

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004C 0069 0065 0075 0074 0065 006E 0061 006E 0074      0047 0065 006E 0065 0072 0061 006C

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

46757187867180678086241718071846778

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Slideshow
5. Images: Photo Album
6. Quotations: Familiar
7. Quotations: Non-fiction
8. Translations: Modern
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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