Military Attache Definition

noun
An officer of the armed forces attached to the staff of an ambassador to another country.
Webster's New World

A diplomatic attaché for military affairs.

Military attachés are usually high-ranking officers.
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Other Word Forms of Military Attache

Noun

Singular:
military attache
Plural:
military-attachs, military attaches

Origin of Military Attache

  • military (from Middle French militaire (=modern), from Latin militaris "of soldiers or war", from miles "soldier", perhaps ultimately from Etruscan) + attaché (from French, the past participle of attacher 'to attach'.)

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Military Attache Sentence Examples

  • In 1897 he became military attache at the American legation in Madrid.

  • His diplomatic career began at the congress of Paris, after the Crimean War, where he took an active part as military attache in the negotiations regarding the rectification of the Russian frontier on the Lower Danube.

  • In 1905 he went to Japan as military attache to the American embassy, and during the Russo-Japanese War spent several months as military observer with the Japanese army in Manchuria.

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