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Definition: Major-general |
Major-generalNoun1. A general officer ranking above a brigadier general and below a lieutenant general. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "major-general" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1791. (references) |
Crosswords: Major-general |
| Specialty definitions using "major-general": Cupar Justice ♦ Jedwood Justice ♦ Martello Towers. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Major-general" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Portuguese (majority). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Funeral of Major-General Henry W. Lawton (1900) Major-General Lloyd Wheaton (1900) | |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
James Madison | 1809-1817 | At a recent date an attack was made on a post of the enemy near Niagara by a detachment of the regular and other forces under the command of Major-General Van Rensselaer, of the militia of the State of New York. |
James Monroe | 1817-1825 | In authorizing Major-General Jackson to enter Florida in pursuit of the Seminoles care was taken not to encroach on the rights of Spain. |
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| "Major-general" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 65.71% of the time. "Major-general" is used about 70 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 (proper) | 65.71% | 46 | 50,285 |
| Noun (singular) | 25.71% | 18 | 82,615 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 8.57% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Total | 100.00% | 70 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "major-general"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 主要一般. (various references) | |
Finnish | kenraalimajuri. (various references) | |
Hungarian | vezérőrnagy (major general). (various references) | |
Korean | 중"하 일반. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ajor-generalmay.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-e-g-j-l-m-n-o-r-r" | |
-4 letters: aerogram, enlarger, jargonel, renogram. | |
-5 letters: aerogel, almoner, areolae, areolar, arrange, enlarge, erelong, gamelan, general, germane, gleamer, gleaner, gleeman, glomera, gomeral, gomerel, granola, groaner, jangler, learner, manager, mangler, marengo, marrano, melange, mojarra, mongrel, realgar, regaler, relearn. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 61 6A 6F 72 2D 67 65 6E 65 72 61 6C |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01100001 01101010 01101111 01110010 00101101 01100111 01100101 01101110 01100101 01110010 01100001 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M a j o r - g e n e r a l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 0061 006A 006F 0072 002D 0067 0065 006E 0065 0072 0061 006C |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)47677681841573718071846778 |
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