lieutenant general

1. 1.

   a general officer ranking above a major general and below a full general

   Broadergeneral officer

   military

Questions about lieutenant general

What does lieutenant general mean?

lieutenant general means "a general officer ranking above a major general and below a full general".

Is lieutenant general a common word?

lieutenant 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.