military officer

Questions about military officer

What does military officer mean?

military officer means "any person in the armed services who holds a position of authority or command".

What is another word for military officer?

Close synonyms include officer. 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 military officer a common word?

military 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.