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English

Etymology

Borrowed from French brigadier. Equivalent to brigade +? -ier.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??(?)

Noun

brigadier (plural brigadiers)

1. (military) An army rank; an officer commanding a brigade.
2. (military, Britain) A field officer of the highest grade, below general officers, NATO grade O7.
3. (historical) The head of a workforce in the Soviet Union.
   • 1952, The Soviet Bloc as Reported by Former Nationals Interview Report

     The supervisory staff of the farm did their work well, according to the source. All the brigadiers were old, experienced workers who knew their business.

Synonyms

• brigadier general
• senior colonel

Coordinate terms

• commodore

Translations

See also

• commodore admiral
• rear admiral (lower half)
• senior captain
• fleet captain

References

• John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “brigadier”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN

Further reading

• brigadier on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• air bridge, airbridge

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French brigadier.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bri.?a??di?r/
• Hyphenation: bri?ga?dier
• Rhymes: -i?r

Noun

brigadier m (plural brigadiers)

1. constable (police officer of some seniority)
2. (historical) brigadier, corporal, or a colonel in charge of a brigade

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: brigadir

French

Etymology

brigade +? -ier.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?i.?a.dje/

Noun

brigadier m (plural brigadiers, feminine brigadière)

1. brigadier (military)

Derived terms

• bricard
• brigadier-chef
• brigadier-général
• brigadier scolaire
• sous-brigadier

Descendants

• ? Dutch: brigadier
  • ? Indonesian: brigadir
• ? English: brigadier
• ? Romanian: brigadier
• ? Spanish: brigadier

Further reading

• “brigadier” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French brigadier.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bri.?a.di?er/

Noun

brigadier m (plural brigadieri, feminine equivalent brigadier?)

1. brigadier (military)
2. forester (forestry)
3. (dated) brigadier general

Declension

Synonyms

• (forester): brigadier silvic, brigadier forestier
• (brigadier general): general de brigad?

Related terms

• brigad?

References

• brigadier in DEX online - Dic?ionare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

Spanish

Noun

brigadier m (plural brigadieres)

1. brigadier

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di?n/
• IPA^(key): [d??n], enPR: d?n (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this pronunciation?)
• Rhymes: -i?n
• Homophone: dene

Etymology 1

From Anglo-Norman deen, from Old French deien (which became doyen in modern French), from Latin dec?nus. Doublet of doyen.

Noun

dean (plural deans)

1. A senior official in a college or university, who may be in charge of a division or faculty (for example, the dean of science) or have some other advisory or disciplinary function (for example, the dean of students).
2. A dignitary or presiding officer in certain church bodies, especially an ecclesiastical dignitary, subordinate to a bishop, in charge of a chapter of canons.
3. The senior member of some group of people.

   dean of the diplomatic corps - a country's most senior ambassador

   dean of the House - the longest-serving member of a legislature

   • 1955, Rex Stout, "The Next Witness", in Three Witnesses, October 1994 Bantam edition, ?ISBN, page 67:

     All of the switchboard operators had been parties to it, including Marie Willis. Their dean, Alice Hart, collected […]

Synonyms

• (Head of cathedral chapter): provost

Derived terms

• dean and chapter
• deanery
• deaness

Related terms

• decanal
• doyen

Translations

Verb

dean (third-person singular simple present deans, present participle deaning, simple past and past participle deaned)

1. (intransitive, rare) To serve as a dean.
2. (transitive, rare, informal) To send (a student) to see the dean of a university.

Etymology 2

Related to den.

Noun

dean (plural deans)

1. (Sussex, chiefly in place names) A hill.

Anagrams

• Aden, Dane, Dena, Edna, Enda, aden-, ande, eDNA, nade

Basque

Noun

dean

1. inessive singular of de

Friulian

Etymology

From Late Latin dec?nus, from Latin decem (“ten”). Compare Italian decano, Venetian degàn, French doyen.

Noun

dean m (plural deans)

1. (religion) dean
2. doyen

Related terms

• dîs

Galician

Verb

dean

1. third-person plural present subjunctive of dar