colonels
Meaning of colonels
plural noun
a rank of officer in the army and in the US air force, above a lieutenant colonel and below a brigadier or brigadier general.
mid 16th century: from obsolete French coronel (earlier form of colonel ), from Italian colonnello ‘column of soldiers’, from colonna ‘column’, from Latin columna . The form coronel, source of the modern pronunciation, was usual until the mid 17th century.
Information about colonels
- It is a name.
- The singular form of colonels is: colonel.
- Languages in which colonels is used:
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Hyphenation of colonels
colonels
- It consists of 1 syllables and 8 chars.
- colonels is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
Words that rhyme with colonels
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