Usually means: Military rank above lieutenant colonel.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. colonel: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. colonel: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. colonel: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. colonel: Collins English Dictionary
  5. colonel: Vocabulary.com
  6. Colonel, colonel: Wordnik
  7. colonel: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Colonel, colonel: Wiktionary
  9. colonel: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. colonel: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. colonel: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Colonel, colonel: Dictionary.com
  13. colonel: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. colonel: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Colonel (Australia), Colonel (Canada), Colonel (India), Colonel (Mega Man), Colonel (Pakistan), Colonel (Russia), Colonel (UK), Colonel (US), Colonel (United Kingdom), Colonel (United States), Colonel (disambiguation), Colonel (title), Colonel, The Colonel (Monty Python), The Colonel (The Americans), The Colonel (horse), The Colonel (play), The Colonel: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Colonel: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. colonel: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. colonel: Rhymezone
  19. colonel, colonel (m): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. colonel: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. colonel: Free Dictionary
  22. colonel: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. colonel: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. Colonel: World Wide Words
  25. colonel: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. Colonel: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. baby names list (No longer online)
  3. colonel: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. colonel, the colonel: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See colonelcy as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A commissioned officer in an armed military organization, typically the highest rank before flag officer ranks (generals). It is generally found in armies, air forces or naval infantry (marines).
noun:  (historical) A military leader, distinct from the modern professional military rank.
noun:  An honorary civilian title bestowed by some southern US states, most commonly Kentucky; notably Colonel Sanders of KFC.
noun:  (Southern US, dated) An informal title used to address an elderly man.
noun:  (US) A form of address for an auctioneer, from the American Civil War practice of commanding officers organizing the public sale of seized goods.
verb:  (intransitive) To act as or like a colonel.
noun:  (military) The military officer title.

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