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adjutant

/ˈæ.d͡ʒə.tənt/

adjutant noun: an assistant.

adjutant: an assistant
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Noun

adjutant (plural adjutants)

  1. An assistant.
  2. (stricto sensu) A lower-ranking officer who assists a higher-ranking officer with administrative affairs.
  3. Either the greater or the lesser adjutant, stork species of the genus Leptoptilos, family Ciconiidae, native to India and Southeast Asia.
    • Aquatic birds of various kinds are very numerous, such as geese, darters (Plotus melanogaster), scissor-bills (Rhynchops nigra), adjutants (Leptoptilos argala), pelicans, cormorants, cranes (Grus antigone, in Burmese gyoja), whimbrels, plovers, and ibises.1876, "Burmah" in the Encyclopædia Britannica, 9th ed., Vol. IV, p. 552
    Synonyms:
    adjutant bird

Adjective

adjutant (not comparable)

  1. Assistant; who helps a higher-ranking officer.
    • adjutant officer
    Synonyms:
    adj., adjt

adjutant meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Malayalam and Sanskrit

adjutant in Tamil

உதவியாளர், புதா, பெருநாரை, துணைத்தளபதி, துணைவர், துணபடைத் தலைவர்

adjutant in Urdu

معاون عسکری

adjutant in Malayalam

അംഗരക്ഷകൻ, കാര്യസ്ഥൻ, സഹായസേനാപതി

adjutant in Sanskrit

adjutant, Indian crane
मर्कट markáṭa
More languagesFewer languages
adjutant in Malay
ajutan
adjutant in Indonesian
ajudan
adjutant in Persian
آجودان âjudân

Synonyms of adjutant

Forms of adjutant

pluraladjutants

Plural of adjutant: adjutants

Origin of adjutant

Probably in part from Spanish ayudante and in part from Portuguese ajudante (“assistant, helper, aide”), nominal uses of present participial adjectives from respectively ayudar and ajudar, from Latin adiūtō (“to help, assist”), with remodeling after its present participle adiūtāns (acc. adiūtantem). The stork's name is derived from the military sense, owing to its marchlike stiff gait when on ground.

Words formed from adjutant

Phrases with adjutant

Questions about adjutant

What does adjutant mean?
Adjutant means an assistant.
What is adjutant in Tamil?
Adjutant in Tamil is உதவியாளர், புதா, பெருநாரை. See Adjutant meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is adjutant?
Adjutant can be a noun or an adjective.
How do you pronounce adjutant?
Adjutant is pronounced /ˈæ.d͡ʒə.tənt/.
What is the plural of adjutant?
The plural of adjutant is adjutants.

Words near adjutant in the dictionary

  1. adjusts
  2. adjutage
  3. adjutages
  4. adjutancies
  5. adjutancy
  6. adjutant
  7. adjutant bird
  8. adjutant birds
  9. adjutant general
  10. adjutant generals
  11. adjutant stork

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Adapted from Wiktionary: adjutant (page history and authors); adjutant (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); adjutant (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); adjutant (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); मर्कट (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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