colonel
/ˈkɜːnəl/noun
1- a rank of officer in the army and in the US air force, above a lieutenant colonel and below a brigadier or brigadier general（陆军和美国空军中的）上校。
1.1
- informal short for LIEUTENANT COLONEL.〈非正式〉LIEUTENANT COLONEL的简称。
派生词
colonelcy
noun （pl. -ies）词源
mid 16th cent.: from obsolete French coronel （earlier form of colonel）, from Italian colonnello 'column of soldiers', from colonna 'column', from Latin columna. The form coronel, source of the modern pronunciation, was usual until the mid 17th cent.