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English Thesaurus

1. a commissioned officer in the United States Army or Air Force or Marines holding a rank above major and below colonel (noun.person)

hypernym	:	colonel,
definition	:	a commissioned military officer in the United States Army or Air Force or Marines who ranks above a lieutenant colonel and below a brigadier general (noun.person)

domain category	:	armed forces, armed services, military, military machine, war machine,
definition	:	the military forces of a nation (noun.group)