Colonel

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Colonel (plural Colonels)

1. (military) The military officer title.
   • 1899 March 31, Geo[rge] W[esley] Atkinson, “Status of Members of National Guard, Who were Volunteers In the Spanish War.—Correspondence Between Governor Atkinson and General [Baldwin Day] Spilman.”, in Public Addresses, Etc., of Geo. W. Atkinson, LL. D., D. C. L., Governor of West Virginia, During His Term of Office. […], [Charleston, W.Va.]: […] Public Printer, published 1901, →OCLC, page 291:

     Consequently the necessity for the reorganization of the Guard, during the ten months’ absence of yourself and Colonels Smith and Banks, could not have been averted under our present Military Code.

Borrowed from English colonel.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkœʁnəl/ (standard)
• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔlənəl/ (sometimes; approaching an assumed English pronunciation)

Colonel m (strong, genitive Colonels or Colonel, plural Colonels or Colonel)

1. colonel; (in Anglo-Saxon armies)

Borrowed from French colonel.

• IPA^(key): /ˌkɔloˈnɛl/

Colonel m (strong, genitive Colonels or Colonel, plural Colonels)

1. colonel; (in Francophone armies)

• Oberst (the general word)

Diminutive of colun (“wild donkey”).

Colonel m (genitive/dative lui Colonel)

1. a surname