light colonel

1. 1.

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

   Synonymslieutenant colonel

   Broadercolonel

   military

Questions about light colonel

What does light colonel mean?

light 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 light colonel?

Close synonyms include lieutenant 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 light colonel a common word?

light 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.