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Answer for the clue "Military rank ", 5 letters:
major

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Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 alt. a military rank between captain and lieutenant colonel n. a military rank between captain and lieutenant colonel Etymology 2 Of great significance or importance. n. 1 (context US Canada Australia and New Zealand English) The main area of ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a big/great/major disadvantage ▪ This method has one major disadvantage: its cost. a big/huge/major success ▪ The government claimed the policy was a major success. a big/large/major city ▪ They have stores in ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, from Latin maior (earlier *magjos ), irregular comparative of magnus "large, great" (see magnate ). Used in music (of modes, scales, or chords) since 1690s, on notion of an interval a half-tone greater than the minor .

Usage examples of major.

The sheriff thrust the papers at Major MacInnes and Abigail could only stare while he quickly scanned the pages.

Major MacInnes turned to watch Major Jennings returning with Corporal Lester and Private Sutton, and Abigail lowered her eyes to her lap.

Each great natural family has requisites that define it, and the characters that make it recognizable are the nearest to these fundamental conditions: thus, reproduction being the major function of the plant, the embryo will be its most important part, and it becomes possible to divide the vegetable kingdom into three classes: acotyledons, monocotyledons, and dicotyledons.

Serpent, Adad is my chosen adversary, the first major step in my rise to power.

Revenge and the hatred for the monsters that tore my body apart, were my major incentives to keep the search for Adeem alive.

Now, you may be thinking, where am I going to get the budget to buy advertising in a major sports arena?

Later arrivals could not have initiated any major changes in the language or culture, although they may have introduced one or more useful plants and an adze or two of exotic type.

Major Migel affectionately dubbed the Forest Hills trio, that they had entertained almost every delegate to the World Conference, keeping open house and lunching or dining as many of the foreign visitors as possible.

Well, I gets near the Major at table, and afore me stood a china utensil with two handles, full of soup, about the size of a foot-tub, with a large silver scoop in it, near about as big as a ladle of a maple sugar kettle.

Rock music then, unlike now, was the vehicle for social protest: lyrics were analysed in meticulous detail and the release of each new album was a major event.

The Shadow too had seen the empty truck and knew that the side issue of the stolen alumite had become a portion of the major quest, the finding of The Harlequin!

If someone had asked her, Crozie could not have explained that urea, which was the major component of urine, would decompose, become ammoniacal, in a warm environment.

Special Operations volunteers endured, everyone in the Ampersand group was grateful for the program of calisthenics, combat sports, and Swimming that Major Warren had imposed during the months at Gatehouse.

He knows the secrets of the seven major amphibia and of the four true beasts, the platypus and dugong and such as that.

Major General Sir John Ardagh, after winning honors in Hebrew and mathematics at Trinity College, Dublin, had changed from a clerical to a military career.