noncommissioned officer

1. 1.

   a military officer appointed from enlisted personnel

   Synonymsnoncomenlisted officer

   Broadermilitary officer

   Narroweraircraftsmanbombardierchief petty officercorporaldrill masterlance corporalpetty officersergeant

   military

Questions about noncommissioned officer

What does noncommissioned officer mean?

noncommissioned officer means "a military officer appointed from enlisted personnel".

What is another word for noncommissioned officer?

Close synonyms include noncom, enlisted 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 noncommissioned officer a common word?

noncommissioned 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.