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general
English
Alternative forms
- generall (chiefly archaic)
Etymology
From Middle English general, in turn from Anglo-Norman general, generall, Middle French general, and their source, Latin gener?lis, from genus (“class, kind”) + -?lis (“-al”).
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /?d???n??l/
- (US) IPA(key): /?d???n???l/
- Hyphenation: gene?ral, gen?er?al
Adjective
general (comparative more general, superlative most general)
- Including or involving every part or member of a given or implied entity, whole etc.; as opposed to specific or particular. [from 13th c.]
- (sometimes postpositive) Applied to a person (as a postmodifier or a normal preceding adjective) to indicate supreme rank, in civil or military titles, and later in other terms; pre-eminent. [from 14th c.]
- Prevalent or widespread among a given class or area; common, usual. [from 14th c.]
- Not limited in use or application; applicable to the whole or every member of a class or category. [from 14th c.]
- Giving or consisting of only the most important aspects of something, ignoring minor details; indefinite. [from 16th c.]
- Not limited to a specific class; miscellaneous, concerned with all branches of a given subject or area. [from 16th c.]
Synonyms
- (involving every part or member): broad, generic; see also Thesaurus:generic
- (prevalent or widespread): typical; see also Thesaurus:common
Antonyms
- (involving every part or member): particular, specific; see also Thesaurus:specific
- (prevalent or widespread): abnormal, uncommon
Derived terms
Related terms
- universal
- common
Translations
Noun
general (countable and uncountable, plural generals)
- (now rare) A general fact or proposition; a generality. [from 16th c.]
- (military) The holder of a senior military title, originally designating the commander of an army and now a specific rank falling under field marshal (in the British army) and below general of the army or general of the air force in the US army and air forces. [from 16th c.]
- A great strategist or tactician. [from 16th c.]
- (Christianity) The head of certain religious orders, especially Dominicans or Jesuits. [from 16th c.]
- (nautical) A commander of naval forces; an admiral. [16th-18th c.]
- (colloquial, now historical) A general servant; a maid with no specific duties. [from 19th c.]
- (countable) A general anesthetic.
- (uncountable) General anesthesia.
- (uncountable, insurance) The general insurance industry.
Usage notes
When used as a title, it is always capitalized.
- Example: General John Doe.
The rank corresponds to pay grade O-10. Abbreviations: GEN.
Coordinate terms
- (insurance industry): health, life, pensions
Translations
See also
- hetman
Verb
general (third-person singular simple present generals, present participle generalling or generaling, simple past and past participle generalled or generaled)
- To lead (soldiers) as a general.
Adverb
general (not comparable)
- (obsolete) In a general or collective manner or sense; in most cases; upon the whole.
Anagrams
- enlarge, gleaner, reangle
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin gener?lis.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central) IPA(key): /??.n???al/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /d??e.ne??al/
Adjective
general (masculine and feminine plural generals)
- general
Noun
general m (plural generals, feminine generala)
- (military) general
Derived terms
Further reading
- “general” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “general” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “general” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “general” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Danish
Noun
general c (singular definite generalen, plural indefinite generaler)
- general
Inflection
Ladin
Adjective
general m (feminine singular generala, masculine plural generai, feminine plural generales)
- general
Middle English
Alternative forms
- generall, generale
Etymology
From a mixture of Anglo-Norman general, Middle French general, and Latin gener?lis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d??n??ra?l/, /?d??n?ral/
Adjective
general
- universal, complete
- comprehensive, wide-ranging
- general, widely useable or applicable
- common, widely present
Descendants
- English: general
- Scots: general
References
- “?ener?l, adj. & n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-01.
Noun
general (plural generals)
- genus, class, group
References
- “?ener?l, adj. & n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-01.
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
general m (definite singular generalen, indefinite plural generaler, definite plural generalene)
- (military) a general
Derived terms
- generalguvernør
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
general m (definite singular generalen, indefinite plural generalar, definite plural generalane)
- (military) a general
Derived terms
- generalguvernør
Old French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin gener?lis.
Noun
general m (oblique plural generaus or generax or generals, nominative singular generaus or generax or generals, nominative plural general)
- (military) general
Adjective
general m (oblique and nominative feminine singular generale)
- general (not limited in use or application; applicable to the whole or every member of a class or category)
Declension
Descendants
- ? English: general
- French: général
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin gener?lis. See also geral, from the same source.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /?e.ne??a??/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /??.n???a?/
- Hyphenation: ge?ne?ral
Noun
general m (plural generais, feminine generala, feminine plural generalas)
- (military) general
Descendants
- ? Tetum: jenerál
Further reading
- “general” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French général, from Latin gener?lis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d??e.ne?ral/
Noun
general m (plural generali)
- general
Declension
Adjective
general m or n (feminine singular general?, masculine plural generali, feminine and neuter plural generale)
- general
Declension
Related terms
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From German General, from Latin gener?lis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?en?ra?l/
- Hyphenation: ge?ne?ral
Noun
genèr?l m (Cyrillic spelling ????????)
- (military) general
Declension
Slovene
Etymology
From German General, from Latin gener?lis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??n?rá?l/
Noun
gener?l m anim (female equivalent gener?lica or gener?lka)
- (military) general
Inflection
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin gener?lis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /xene??al/, [xe.ne??al]
Adjective
general (plural generales)
- general
Derived terms
Noun
general m (plural generales, feminine generala, feminine plural generalas)
- (military) general
Descendants
- ? Cebuano: heneral
- ? Tagalog: heneral
Further reading
- “general” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
Swedish
Etymology
From German General, from Old French general, from Latin gener?lis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /j?n(?)?r??l/
Noun
general c
- a general; a military title
- an Air Chief Marshal
Declension
Descendants
- ? Finnish: kenraali
References
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state
English
Etymology
Middle English (as a noun); adopted c. 1200 from both Old French estat and Latin status (“manner of standing, attitude, position, carriage, manner, dress, apparel; and other senses”), from stare (“to stand”). Doublet of estate and status. The sense of "polity" develops in the 14th century. Compare French être, Greek ???? (stéo), Italian stare, Portuguese estar, Romanian sta, and Spanish estar.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /ste?t/
- Rhymes: -e?t
Noun
state (plural states)
- A condition; a set of circumstances applying at any given time.
- (physics) A complete description of a system, consisting of parameters that determine all properties of the system.
- 1977, J. B. Sykes and John Stewart Bell, translating Lev Landau and Evgeny Lifshitz, Course of Theoretical Physics Vol. 3: Quantum Mechanics: Non-relativistic Theory, p.28:
- States in which the energy has definite values are called stationary states of a system; they are described by wave functions ?n which are the eigenfunctions of the Hamiltonian operator, i.e. which satisfy the equation ??n = En?n, where En are the eigenvalues of the energy.
- 1977, J. B. Sykes and John Stewart Bell, translating Lev Landau and Evgeny Lifshitz, Course of Theoretical Physics Vol. 3: Quantum Mechanics: Non-relativistic Theory, p.28:
- (computing) The stable condition of a processor during a particular clock cycle.
- (computing) The set of all parameters relevant to a computation.
- (computing) The values of all parameters at some point in a computation.
- (sciences) The physical property of matter as solid, liquid, gas or plasma.
- (obsolete) Highest and stationary condition, as that of maturity between growth and decline, or as that of crisis between the increase and the abating of a disease; height; acme.
- (physics) A complete description of a system, consisting of parameters that determine all properties of the system.
- High social standing or circumstance.
- Pomp, ceremony, or dignity.
- Rank; condition; quality.
- c. 1593, William Shakespeare, Richard III, [Act I, Scene iii]:
- And le?ned by that ?mall, God I be?eech him, / Thy honor, ?tate, and ?eate, is due to me.
- c. 1593, William Shakespeare, Richard III, [Act I, Scene iii]:
- Condition of prosperity or grandeur; wealthy or prosperous circumstances; social importance.
- A chair with a canopy above it, often standing on a dais; a seat of dignity; also, the canopy itself.
- (obsolete) A great person, a dignitary; a lord or prince.
- 1644, John Milton, Aeropagitica, page 1:
- They who to States and Governours of the Commonwealth direct their Speech, High Court of Parlament, or wanting ?uch acce??e in a private condition, write that which they fore?ee may advance the publick good?; I ?uppo?e them as at the beginning of no meane endeavour, not a little alter’d and mov’d inwardly in their mindes […]
- 1644, John Milton, Aeropagitica, page 1:
- (obsolete) Estate, possession.
- Pomp, ceremony, or dignity.
- A polity.
- Any sovereign polity; a national or city-state government.
- a. 1949, Albert Einstein, as quoted by Virgil Henshaw in Albert Einstein: Philosopher Scientist (1949)
- Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.
- a. 1949, Albert Einstein, as quoted by Virgil Henshaw in Albert Einstein: Philosopher Scientist (1949)
- A political division of a federation retaining a notable degree of autonomy, as in the United States, Germany, or Australia.
- (obsolete) A form of government other than a monarchy.
- (anthropology) A society larger than a tribe. A society large enough to form a state in the sense of a government.
- Any sovereign polity; a national or city-state government.
- (mathematics, stochastic processes) An element of the range of the random variables that define a random process.
- (grammar, semantics) The lexical aspect (aktionsart) of verbs or predicates that do not change over time.
- Antonym: occurrence
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Pages starting with “state”.
Translations
Verb
state (third-person singular simple present states, present participle stating, simple past and past participle stated)
- (transitive) To declare to be a fact.
- Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations. It is easily earned repetition to state that Josephine St. Auban's was a presence not to be concealed.
- (transitive) To make known.
Usage notes
State is stronger or more definitive than say. It is used to communicate an absence of reasonable doubt and to emphasize the factual or truthful nature of the communication.
Synonyms
- See Thesaurus:communicate
Translations
Adjective
state (comparative more state, superlative most state)
- (obsolete) Stately.
Related terms
- estate
- statistics
- status
- State
See also
- department
- province
Further reading
- state on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
References
- state at OneLook Dictionary Search
- state in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
- state in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- state in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- Satet, Testa, Tetas, aetts, atest, taste, teats, testa
Afrikaans
Noun
state
- plural of staat
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?sta.te/
- Rhymes: -ate
- Hyphenation: stà?te
Etymology 1
Apheretic form of estate.
Noun
state f (plural stati)
- (Tuscany) Alternative form of estate
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Verb
state
- inflection of stare:
- second-person plural present indicative
- second-person plural imperative
Etymology 3
See the etymology of the main entry.
Participle
state
- feminine plural of stato
Anagrams
- setta, testa
References
- state in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti
Latin
Verb
st?te
- second-person plural present active imperative of st?
Participle
state
- vocative masculine singular of status
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