Definitions

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • (Mil.) The staff of an army, including all officers above the rank of colonel, also, all adjutants, inspectors, quartermasters, commissaries, engineers, ordnance officers, paymasters, physicians, signal officers, judge advocates; also, the noncommissioned assistants of the above officers.

Etymologies

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French, from état state + Latin major greater.

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