Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
colonelcy .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Colonelcy.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The status or rank of a
colonel ;colonelcy
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word colonelship.
Examples
-
Although he hath fought for the wrong side to our thinking, bravely hath he fought, and made his way to a colonelship, worth five thousand dollars, if ever they pay their wages.
Erema Richard Doddridge 2004
-
Having proposed to the new-comer (to whom, as an experienced commander, he destined the colonelship of his cavalry,) that they should proceed to a survey of the fortifications at Bouge, they mounted their horses, and, escorted by Nignio di Zuniga, the Spanish aide-de-camp of the prince, proceeded to the camp.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844 Various
-
How he bought himself into that colonelship of Dragoons, invented that band uniform, scattered those broad pieces at play, kept that stable of English hunters, and boasted of those interminable ancestries in Burgundy!
The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette William Douw Lighthall
-
I was proud of his colonelship, and much exercised because he had no shoulder-straps.
-
During this short time of my colonelship, being about to set out on a journey to Virginia, the officers of my regiment took it into their heads that it would be proper for them to escort me out of town, as far as the Lower Ferry.
Paras. 301-350 1909
-
During this short time of my colonelship, being about to set out on a journey to Virginia, the officers of my regiment took it into their heads that it would be proper for them to escort me out of town, as far as the Lower Ferry.
-
Although he hath fought for the wrong side to our thinking, bravely hath he fought, and made his way to a colonelship, worth five thousand dollars, if ever they pay their wages.
-
Captain Mathews, an ambitious, well-to-do settler, with cribs full of corn, was a candidate for the colonelship.
David Crockett 1841
-
During this short time of my colonelship, being about to set out on a journey to Virginia, the officers of my regiment took it into their heads that it would be proper for them to escort me out of town, as far as the Lower Ferry.
-
During this short time of my colonelship, being about to set out on a journey to Virginia, the officers of my regiment took it into their heads that it would be proper for them to escort me out of town, as far as the Lower Ferry.
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin Benjamin Franklin 1748
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.