officer

1. 1.

   direct or command as an officer

   Broadercommand

Other forms of officer

plural

officers·

past tense

officerred·

present participle

officerring·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about officer

What does officer mean?

officer means "any person in the armed services who holds a position of authority or command". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in officer?

officer has 3 syllables: of-fi-cer. The stress falls on "of". In IPA it is /ˈɔfəsɚ/.

What is another word for officer?

Close synonyms include military officer, officeholder, policeman, police officer, ship's 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 officer a common word?

officer is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.