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adjutant
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Adjutant \Ad"ju*tant\, n. [L. adjutans, p. pr. of adjutare to help. See Aid.]
A helper; an assistant.
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(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. Adjutant general
(Mil.), the principal staff officer of an army, through whom the commanding general receives communications and issues military orders. In the U. S. army he is brigadier general.
(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.
(Zo["o]l.) A species of very large stork ( Ciconia argala), a native of India; -- called also the gigantic crane, and by the native name argala. It is noted for its serpent-destroying habits.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"military officer who assists superior officers," c.1600, from Latin adiutantem (nominative adiutans), present participle of adiutare "to give help to, help zealously, serve," frequentative of adiuvare (past participle adiutus) "help, assist, aid, support," from ad- "to" (see ad-) + iuvare "to help, give strength, support," perhaps from same root as iuvenis "young person" (see young).
Wiktionary
a. The noun used as a modifier (e.g. adjutant officer). n. 1 (context military English) A lower-ranking officer who assists a higher-ranking officer with administrative affairs. 2 An assistant. 3 A bird in the genus ''Leptoptilos'' of the stork family Ciconiidae.
WordNet
n. an officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer [syn: aide, aide-de-camp]
large Indian stork with a military gait [syn: adjutant bird, adjutant stork, Leptoptilus dubius]
Wikipedia
Adjutant is a military rank or appointment. In some armies, including most English-speaking ones, it is an officer who assists a more senior officer, while in other armies, especially Francophone ones, it is an NCO (non-commissioned officer), normally corresponding roughly to a staff sergeant or warrant officer.
An adjutant general is commander of an army's administrative services.
Usage examples of "adjutant".
The words passed along the lines and an adjutant ran to look for the missing officer.
And the commander, turning to look at the adjutant, directed his jerky steps down the line.
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.
Kutuzov glancing at Bolkonski as if by this exclamation he was asking the adjutant to wait, and he went on with the conversation in French.
The adjutant on duty, meeting Prince Andrew, asked him to wait, and went in to the Minister of War.
The adjutant by his elaborate courtesy appeared to wish to ward off any attempt at familiarity on the part of the Russian messenger.
His fertile mind instantly suggested to him a point of view which gave him a right to despise the adjutant and the minister.
But after it was over, the adjutant he had seen the previous day ceremoniously informed Bolkonski that the Emperor desired to give him an audience.
Entering the house, Prince Andrew saw Nesvitski and another adjutant having something to eat.
A young officer with a bewildered and pained expression on his face stepped away from the man and looked round inquiringly at the adjutant as he rode by.
But at that moment an adjutant galloped up with a message from the commander of the regiment in the hollow and news that immense masses of the French were coming down upon them and that his regiment was in disorder and was retreating upon the Kiev grenadiers.
He rode off at a walk to the right and sent an adjutant to the dragoons with orders to attack the French.
But this adjutant returned half an hour later with the news that the commander of the dragoons had already retreated beyond the dip in the ground, as a heavy fire had been opened on him and he was losing men uselessly, and so had hastened to throw some sharpshooters into the wood.
Turning to his adjutant he ordered him to bring down the two battalions of the Sixth Chasseurs whom they had just passed.
Should he go to headquarters next day and challenge that affected adjutant, or really let the matter drop, was the question that worried him all the way.