Lieutenant-general definition

A commissioned rank in the US Army, Air Force, or Marine Corps that is above major general and below general.
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One who holds this rank.
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(u.s. mil.) An officer, with an insignia of three stars, ranking above a major general and below a general.
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Alternative capitalization of lieutenant general (found when the term is used as a title).
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Singular:
lieutenant-general
Plural:
lieutenant-generals, lieutenants-general

Lieutenant-general Sentence Examples

  • The best proof of his not being ambitious of such a doubtful piece of preferment is that he made no attempt to get himself made king, regent or lieutenant-general of the kingdom at the time of the flight to Varennes in June 1791.

  • In 1535 he received his cardinal's hat; in1536-1537he was nominated "lieutenant-general" to the king at Paris and in the Ile de France, and was entrusted with the organization of the defence against the imperialists.

  • In 1672, having finished his philosophy course, he was given a scholarship at the college of St Michel at Paris by Jean, marquis de Pompadour, lieutenant-general of the Limousin.

  • Claude Antoine de Besiade, marquis d'Avaray, was deputy for the bailliage of Orleans in the states-general of 1789, and proposed a Declaration of the Duties of Man as a pendant to the Declaration of the Rights of Man; he subsequently became a lieutenant-general in 1814, a peer of France in 1815, and duc d'Avaray in 1818.

  • Till middle life he was also lieutenant-general in Aragon for his brother and predecessor Alphonso V., whose reign was mainly spent in Italy.

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