Word Meanings - AID-MAJOR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The adjutant of a regiment.

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• ADJUTANT
  A regimental staff officer, who assists the colonel, or commanding officer of a garrison or regiment, in the details of regimental and garrison duty. Adjutant general , the principal staff officer of an army, through whom the commanding general
• REGIMENTALS
  The uniform worn by the officers and soldiers of a regiment; military dress; -- formerly used in the singular in the same sense. Colman.
• REGIMENTALLY
  In or by a regiment or regiments; as, troops classified regimentally.
• REGIMENT
  A body of men, either horse, foot, or artillery, commanded by a colonel, and consisting of a number of companies, usually ten. Note: In the British army all the artillery are included in one regiment, which is divided into brigades. Regiment of
• REGIMENTAL
  Belonging to, or concerning, a regiment; as, regimental officers, clothing. Regimental school, in the British army, a school for the instruction of the private soldiers of a regiment, and their children, in the rudimentary branches of education.
• COADJUTANT
  Mutually assisting or operating; helping. J. Philips.