0 an officer of high rank in the army or air force: --
[ as form of address ] Yes, Colonel.
Colonel Furlong
Colonel is the military rank between lieutenant-colonel and brigadier.
1 a military officer of high rank, above a major --
From now on it will be possible to do so up to and including the rank of full colonel.
I should like to know the nature of the colonel's command, and how far he is to joint in our debates.
All colonels promoted after that date were required to provide the new uniform.
She appealed to my sympathy, saying that she was already elderly, so that her pains would be very severe, and that she was a colonel's widow.
The old service is constructed around a prosopographical study of over six hundred men commissioned as colonels - commanders of regiments - in the royal armies between 1642 and 1646.
He interviewed a range of military officers, about evenly divided between colonels and generals.
The journalist hated the soldier of the colonel who was sitting down.
The journalist hated the soldiers of the colonels who were sitting down.
