Colonel

Noun

 * 1) A commissioned officer in the army, air force, or marine corps. In U.S. military, it ranks above a lieutenant colonel and below a brigadier general.

Adjectives for Colonel
crusty; old; courtly; benign; gallant; cultured ; rum-rotten.

Thesaurus
commanding officer, commissioned officer, company officer, exec, executive officer, field marshal, field officer, first lieutenant, five-star general, four-star general, general, general officer, generalissimo, jemadar, junior officer, lieutenant, lieutenant colonel, lieutenant general, major, major general, marechal, marshal, officer, one-star general, orderly officer, risaldar, senior officer, shavetail, sirdar, staff officer, subahdar, subaltern, sublieutenant, the Old Man, the brass, three-star general, top brass, two-star general

Etymology
First attested 1548, from coronel:, from  colonnello:, from compagna colonnella:, from  columna:

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Arabic: عقيد, زعيم, زعيم رتبة, كولونيل
 * Bosnian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 上校
 * Croatian:, pukovnica
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:, everstistä
 * French:
 * Georgian: პოლკოვნიკი
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Haitian Creole:
 * Hindi: कर्नल
 * Hungarian:
 * Hungarian:


 * Indonesian:
 * Italian: colonnello
 * Japanese:
 * Korean: 대령
 * Macedonian:
 * Maltese: kurunell
 * Norwegian: oberst
 * Persian: سرهنگ
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: пуковник
 * Roman: pukovnik
 * Slovene: polkovnik ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: överste
 * Welsh: gyrnol
 * Welsh: gyrnol

Noun

 * 1) an ice cream dessert consisting of lemon sherbet and vodka.
 * 1) an ice cream dessert consisting of lemon sherbet and vodka.

Etymology 1
from colonel:

Noun

 * a, a military officer above lieutenant-colonel and below general-major.

Etymology 2
from Kolonel:

Noun

 * 1) a letter in a type of font.