- Informal brigadier general
- a British military officer ranking above a colonel and below a major general
Origin of brigadier
French from brigade
noun
The definition of a brigadier is a British army officer who ranks below a major general and above a colonel.
An example of a brigadier is an army leader who brings a group of soldiers into a battle.
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noun
A brigadier general.
Origin of brigadier
French from brigade brigade ; see brigade .THE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Noun
(plural brigadiers)
- (military) An army rank; an officer commanding a brigade.
- (military, UK) the highest field officer grade, below general officers, NATO grade O7
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Sentence Examples
- He was adjutant-general of New York state in 1839-1843, and became a brigadier-general of volunteers in the Union army in 1861, commanded a division in Virginia in 1862-1863, and, being compelled by ill health to resign from the army, was U.S. minister to the Papal States in 1863-1867.
- Lyons, in Brigadier-General Thomas Francis Meagher (New York, 1870), gives a eulogistic account of his career.
- In 1861 he was captain of a company (which he had raised) in the 69th regiment of New York volunteers and fought at the first battle of Bull Run; he then organized an Irish brigade, of whose first regiment he was colonel until the 3rd of February 1862, when he was appointed to the command of this organization with the rank of brigadier-general.
- In the Civil War he attained the rank of brigadier-general (March 1863) and received the brevet of major-general (1865).
- On a direct-fired furnace at least one man, the brigadier, must be an expert in all the operations involved; but with a gas furnace a division of labour is possible.
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