adjutant

1. 1.

   an officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer

   Synonymsaideaide-de-camp

   Broadermilitary officer

   Narroweradjutant general

   military

2. 2.

   large Indian stork with a military gait

   Synonymsadjutant birdadjutant storkLeptoptilus dubius

   Broaderstork

   Part ofLeptoptilus

Other forms of adjutant

plural

adjutants·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about adjutant

What does adjutant mean?

adjutant means "an officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in adjutant?

adjutant has 3 syllables: ad-ju-tant. The stress falls on "ad". In IPA it is /ˈædʒətənt/.

What is another word for adjutant?

Close synonyms include aide, aide-de-camp, adjutant bird, adjutant stork, Leptoptilus dubius. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is adjutant a common word?

adjutant is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.