general officer

1. 1.

   officers in the Army or Air Force or Marines above the rank of colonel

   Broadercommissioned military officer

   Narrowerbrigadiergenerallieutenant generalmajor-general

   military

Questions about general officer

What does general officer mean?

general officer means "officers in the Army or Air Force or Marines above the rank of colonel".

Is general officer a common word?

general officer 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.