brigadier general

1. 1.

   a general officer ranking below a major general

   Synonymsbrigadier

   Broadergeneral officer

Questions about brigadier general

What does brigadier general mean?

brigadier general means "a general officer ranking below a major general".

What is another word for brigadier general?

Close synonyms include brigadier. 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 brigadier general a common word?

brigadier general is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.