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field cornets

field cornets is the plural of field cornet.

Meaning of field cornet

Noun

field cornet (plural field cornets)

  1. (South Africa, historical) A civilian official in a drostdy, invested with the authority of a military officer and empowered to act as a magistrate.
  2. (South Africa, historical) The holder of a military rank equivalent to that of a lieutenant in the Boer armies as well as in the South African Army between 1960 and 1968.

Questions about field cornets

What is field cornets the plural of?
Field cornets is the plural of field cornet.

Words near field cornets in the dictionary

  1. field coil
  2. field coils
  3. field colours
  4. field corn
  5. field cornet
  6. field cornets
  7. field corns
  8. field cricket
  9. field crickets
  10. field day
  11. field days

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Adapted from Wiktionary: field cornets (page history and authors); field cornet (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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