Hypertext Webster Gateway: "brigadier"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Brigadier general \Brig`a*dier" gen"er*al\ [F. brigadier, fr.
brigade.] (Mil.)
An officer in rank next above a colonel, and below a major
general. He commands a brigade, and is sometimes called, by a
shortening of his title, simple a {brigadier}.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
brigadier
n : a general officer ranking below a major general [syn: {brigadier
general}]
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