major-general

1. 1.

   a general officer ranking above a brigadier general and below a lieutenant general

   Broadergeneral officer

   military

Questions about major-general

What does major-general mean?

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

How many syllables are in major-general?

major-general has 5 syllables and divides as ma-jor--ge-ne-ral under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is major-general a common word?

major-general is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.