Word.ws English Dictionary

half-colonel

half-colonel noun: lieutenant colonel.

Noun

half-colonel (plural half-colonels)

  1. (UK, colloquial) lieutenant colonel
    • 'Yep. Lieutenant one day; major by the end of the week: lieutenant-colonel the week after. That's what it's like.' He snuffed down his nose in self-contempt. 'The office in Cairo is full of bogus half-colonels like me.'1965, Olivia Manning, Friends and Heroes (The Balkan Trilogy; 3), Bath: Chivers, page 895 (in series)

Forms of half-colonel

pluralhalf-colonels

Questions about half-colonel

What does half-colonel mean?
Half-colonel means lieutenant colonel.
What part of speech is half-colonel?
Half-colonel is a noun.
What is the plural of half-colonel?
The plural of half-colonel is half-colonels.

Words near half-colonel in the dictionary

  1. half-chance
  2. half-chances
  3. half-clammed
  4. half-cock
  5. half-cocked
  6. half-colonel
  7. half-colonels
  8. half-court
  9. half-court line
  10. half-court lines
  11. half-court violation

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: half-colonel (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “half-colonel.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/half-colonel. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.