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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
saclant is a noun meaning "commanding officer of ACLANT; a general of the United States Army nominated by the President of the United States and approved by the North Atlantic Council". It carries one recorded sense.
commanding officer of ACLANT; a general of the United States Army nominated by the President of the United States and approved by the North Atlantic Council
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for saclant come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.