adjutant
Assistant; who helps a higher-ranking officerAssistant; who helps a higher-ranking officer.
» The general arrives without his adjutant.
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1 senses(not comparable)Assistant; who helps a higher-ranking officer.
adjutant officer
Examples
2 sentencesThe general arrives without his adjutant.
"We have carried the day, Sir!" exclaimed the adjutant to the general as the heavy cavalry smashed through the opposing lines.
Origin
Probably in part from Spanish ayudante and in part from Portuguese ajudante (“assistant, hProbably 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.
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