Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A staff officer who helps a commanding officer with administrative affairs.
- noun An assistant.
- noun Either of two large Asian storks (Leptoptilos dubius or L. javanicus) having a head and neck bare of feathers, black wings, and white underparts.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Helping; assistant. Bullokar (1676).
- noun A helper; an assistant; an aid.
- noun Milit., properly, a regimental staff-officer appointed to assist the commanding officer of a regiment in the discharge of the details of his military duty.
- noun The adjutant-bird (which see).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A helper; an assistant.
- noun (Mil.) A regimental staff officer, who assists the colonel, or commanding officer of a garrison or regiment, in the details of regimental and garrison duty.
- noun (Mil.), (Among the Jesuits) one of a select number of fathers, who resided with the general of the order, each of whom had a province or country assigned to his care.
- noun (Zoöl.) A species of very large stork (
Ciconia argala ), a native of India; -- called also thegigantic crane , and by the native nameargala . It is noted for its serpent-destroying habits.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun military A lower-ranking officer who assists a higher-ranking officer with administrative affairs.
- noun An assistant.
- noun zoology A
bird in the genusLeptoptilos of thestork familyCiconiidae . - adjective The noun used as a
modifier (e.g. adjutant officer).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer
- noun large Indian stork with a military gait
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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This was said in such a pleasant manner I almost concluded the general had been misrepresented, but how changed his tone when he called his adjutant, who in an instant stood before him.
A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences Laura S. Haviland
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She thaws a little, listens to us, and even asks questions in a supercilious way: "Why do you call the adjutant 'le juteux'?"
Under Fire: the story of a squad Henri Barbusse 1904
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"And then he called the adjutant-general and they whispered together a moment, and then he sent me here."
A Little Traitor to the South A War Time Comedy With a Tragic Interlude Cyrus Townsend Brady 1890
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This was said in such a pleasant manner I almost concluded the general had been misrepresented, but how changed his tone when he called his adjutant, who in an instant stood before him.
A Woman's Life-Work Haviland, Laura S 1881
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Guard commanders, known as adjutant general, say they have to be prepared 24/7.
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And I got what was then very experimental, called adjutant chemotherapy.
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On returning from the review, Kutuzov took the Austrian general into his private room and, calling his adjutant, asked for some papers relating to the condition of the troops on their arrival, and the letters that had come from the Archduke Ferdinand, who was in command of the advanced army.
War and Peace 2003
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The death of our adjutant was a great loss to the Battalion.
The Fife and Forfar Yeomanry and 14th (F. & F. Yeo.) Battn. R.H. 1914-1919 David Douglas Ogilvie
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On such occasions the adjutant is the most conspicuous figure.
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I recalled the adjutant and asked him what that entry meant.
reesetee commented on the word adjutant
The Greater Adjutant is one very strange-looking creature. As is the Lesser Adjutant.
June 5, 2007
seanahan commented on the word adjutant
Hilarious looking birds.
June 6, 2007
craigsalvay commented on the word adjutant
adjutant appears to have a closely homophonic pronunciation and share meanings with the Phoenician word "ajjutant," which means "ajjutant Jjm (pI -i) assistant, helper, attendant ajjutat agg pp helped" (source: http://malta.lebaneseclub.org/dictionary.htm).
January 12, 2014