English Explanatory Dictionary

état major

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The staff of an army, including all officers above the rank of colonel, all adjutants, inspectors, quartermasters, commissaries, engineers, ordnance officers, paymasters, physicians, signal officers, and judge advocates, and their noncommissioned assistants.

Word forms

état major états major

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French, from état (“state”) + Latin major (“greater”).

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