lieutenant colonel

1. 1.

   a commissioned officer in the United States Army or Air Force or Marines holding a rank above major and below colonel

   Synonymslight colonel

   Broadercolonel

   military

Questions about lieutenant colonel

What does lieutenant colonel mean?

lieutenant colonel means "a commissioned officer in the United States Army or Air Force or Marines holding a rank above major and below colonel".

What is another word for lieutenant colonel?

Close synonyms include light colonel. 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 lieutenant colonel a common word?

lieutenant colonel 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.