Word Meanings - ADJUTANT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Additional info about word: 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 receives communications and issues military orders. In the U. S. army he is brigadier general. , one of a select number of fathers, who resided with the general of the order, each of whom had a province or country assigned to his care. (more info) 1. A helper; an assistant.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ADJUTANT)

• Colleague
• Helper
• companion
• associate
• ally
• confederate
• coadjutor
• partner
• assistant
• adjutant
• assessor

Related words: (words related to ADJUTANT)

• ASSISTANTLY
  In a manner to give aid.
• COMPANIONLESS
  Without a companion.
• 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
• PARTNER
  An associate in any business or occupation; a member of a partnership. See Partnership. 3. pl. (more info) 1. One who has a part in anything with an other; a partaker; an associate; a sharer. "Partner of his fortune." Shak. Hence: A husband or
• ASSOCIATE
  1. To join with one, as a friend, companion, partner, or confederate; as, to associate others with . 2. To join or connect; to combine in acting; as, particles of gold associated with other substances. 3. To connect or place together in thought.
• COLLEAGUE
  A partner or associate in some civil or ecclesiastical office or employment. It is never used of partners in trade or manufactures. Syn. -- Helper; assistant; coadjutor; ally; associate; companion; confederate. (more info) time with another, a
• PARTNERSHIP
  A contract between two or more competent persons for joining together their money, goods, labor, and skill, or any or all of them, under an understanding that there shall be a communion of profit between them, and for the purpose of carrying on
• COADJUTOR
  The assistant of a bishop or of a priest holding a benefice. (more info) 1. One who aids another; an assistant; a coworker. Craftily outwitting her perjured coadjutor. Sheridan.
• ASSESSORIAL
  Of or pertaining to an assessor, or to a court of assessors. Coxe.
• COMPANIONABLE
  Fitted to be a companion; fit for good fellowship; agreeable; sociable. "Each companionable guest." Mallett. "Companionable wit." Clarendon. -- Com*pan"ion*a*ble*ness, n. -- Com*pan"ion*a*bly, adv.
• COMPANION
  companio , fr. L. com- + panis 1. One who accompanies or is in company with another for a longer or shorter period, either from choice or casually; one who is much in the company of, or is associated with, another or others; an associate;
• ASSOCIATESHIP
  The state of an associate, as in Academy or an office.
• CONFEDERATE
  Of or pertaining to the government of the eleven Southern States of the United States which attempted to establish an independent nation styled the Confederate States of America; as, the Confederate congress; Confederate money. (more info) join
• HELPER
  One who, or that which, helps, aids, assists, or relieves; as, a lay helper in a parish. Thou art the helper of the fatherless. Ps. x. 14. Compassion . . . oftentimes a helper of evils. Dr. H. More.
• ASSOCIATED
  Joined as a companion; brought into association; accompanying; combined. Associated movements , consensual movements which accompany voluntary efforts without our consciousness. Dunglison.
• ASSISTANT
  Of the second grade in the staff of the army; as, an assistant surgeon. Note: In the English army it designates the third grade in any particular branch of the staff. Farrow. (more info) 1. Helping; lending aid or support; auxiliary. Genius and
• ASSESSORSHIP
  The office or function of an assessor.
• COMPANIONSHIP
  Fellowship; association; the act or fact of keeping company with any one. Shak. He never seemed to avail himself of my sympathy other than by mere companionship. W. Irwing
• COADJUTORSHIP
  The state or office of a coadjutor; joint assistance. Pope.
• ASSESSOR
  judge, fr. assid. See Assession. LL., one who arranges of determines 1. One appointed or elected to assist a judge or magistrate with his special knowledge of the subject to be decided; as legal assessors, nautical assessors. Mozley & W. 2. One
• CO-ASSESSOR
  A joint assessor.
• COADJUTANT
  Mutually assisting or operating; helping. J. Philips.
• COMPARTNER
  See COPARTNER
• REASSOCIATE
  To associate again; to bring again into close relatoins.