colonel

Converse of object

• appoint: Appointed colonel of a cavalry regiment In August 1642, Byron was sent to secure the city of Oxford in the King's name.
• say: At stake, says the colonel, are the government's plans to develop the country's biggest and poorest province.
• become: Became a colonel in the Eastern Association army, later governor of King's Lynn.
• see: Sarah told the justices she was on her way to Ashton-under-Lyne to see the colonel at the barracks.
• make: He has been made an honorary colonel of the 1st South African Tank Regiment.

Adjective modifier

• retired: I was engaged in a cocktail party conversation with a recently retired air force colonel.
• honorary: He has been made an honorary colonel of the 1st South African Tank Regiment.
• former: In New York, the former colonel won a scholarship to study with Martha Graham.
• Greek: It was filmed in Greece in 1974, at no small risk, under the hard-line rule of the Greek colonels ' junta.
• American: For example, will an American colonel at the ministry of education decide on the role of Islam in school curricula?
• British: One wise old British colonel said even in those early days, " I believe we shall rue this business for many years.

Noun used with modifier

• lieutenant: The son had been a lieutenant colonel in the army.
• army: Rokke, a former US army colonel, also briefed the Commons Defense Select Committee on the risks of DU in 1999.
• police: Baha Mousa, the son of an Iraqi police colonel, died of asphyxiation.
• air: I was engaged in a cocktail party conversation with a recently retired air force colonel.
• force: I was engaged in a cocktail party conversation with a recently retired air force colonel.

Possessives

group: The scientist was not surprised that I hadn't heard the story of the colonel's group.

Preposition: in

army: Napier was promoted colonel in the army on 27 May 1825.

Preposition: of

• regiment: By 1646, he was colonel of a cavalry regiment.
• militia: He moved to Texas in 1830 and served as lieutenant colonel of the militia of Austin.