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lieutenant-colonelcies

lieutenant-colonelcies is the plural of lieutenant-colonelcy.

Meaning of lieutenant-colonelcy

Noun

lieutenant-colonelcy (plural lieutenant-colonelcies)

  1. The position of lieutenant-colonel.
    • Three years later, at the outbreak of the Revolution, he accepted a lieutenant-colonelcy in ‘La Légion Américaine’, a newly formed all-black unit led by the dashing swordsman and virtuoso violinist Joseph Boulogne, Chevalier de Saint-George.2012, Jonathan Keates, “Mon Père, ce héros”, in Literary Review, section 402

Questions about lieutenant-colonelcies

What is lieutenant-colonelcies the plural of?
Lieutenant-colonelcies is the plural of lieutenant-colonelcy.

Words near lieutenant-colonelcies in the dictionary

  1. lieutenant governor
  2. lieutenant governors
  3. lieutenant junior grade
  4. lieutenant-admiral
  5. lieutenant-colonel
  6. lieutenant-colonelcies
  7. lieutenant-colonelcy
  8. lieutenant-colonels
  9. lieutenant-commander
  10. lieutenant-commanders
  11. lieutenant-general

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