adj
Meaning 1
Assistant; who helps a higher-ranking officer.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Examples
- adjutant officer
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
adjutant
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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ă'-jə-tənt
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/ˈæ.d͡ʒə.tənt/
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CMU ARPABET: AE1 JH AH0 T AH0 N T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
An assistant.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
A lower-ranking officer who assists a higher-ranking officer with administrative affairs.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: stricto sensu
Topics: government, military, politics, war
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
Either the greater or the lesser adjutant, stork species of the genus Leptoptilos, family Ciconiidae, native to India and Southeast Asia.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, natural-sciences, zoology
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: adjutant bird
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 5
large Indian stork with a military gait
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: adjutant bird, adjutant stork, Leptoptilus dubius
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: stork
noun
Meaning 6
an officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: aide, aide-de-camp
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: military officer, officer
Narrower terms: adjutant general
History
Etymology
Probably 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.
Across languages
Translations
43 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Armenian: համհարզ (hamharz) — lower-ranking officer
- Chinese Mandarin: 副官 (fùguān) — lower-ranking officer
- Czech: pobočník — lower-ranking officer
- Dutch: adjudant — lower-ranking officer
- Esperanto: adjutanto — lower-ranking officer
- Estonian: käsundusohvitser — lower-ranking officer
- Estonian: adjutant — lower-ranking officer
- Finnish: adjutantti — lower-ranking officer
- French: adjudant — lower-ranking officer
- German: Adjutant — lower-ranking officer
- Indonesian: ajudan — lower-ranking officer
- Irish: aidiúnach — lower-ranking officer
- Korean: 부관 (bugwan) — lower-ranking officer
- Latin: optiō — lower-ranking officer
- Macedonian: аѓута́нт (aǵutánt) — lower-ranking officer
- Malay: ajutan — lower-ranking officer
- Māori: āpiha kaiāwhina — lower-ranking officer
- Norman: agîtant — lower-ranking officer
- Persian: آجودان (âjudân) — lower-ranking officer
- Polish: adiutant — lower-ranking officer
- Polish: adiutantka — lower-ranking officer
- Romanian: adjutant — lower-ranking officer
- Russian: адъюта́нт (adʺjutánt) — lower-ranking officer
- Slovincian: adjúdant — lower-ranking officer
- Spanish: ayudante — lower-ranking officer
- Estonian: abi — assistant
- Estonian: asjaajaja — assistant
- Estonian: assistent — assistant
- Estonian: sekretär — assistant
- Finnish: adjutantti — assistant
- Finnish: avustaja — assistant
- German: Assistent — assistant
- Greek: υπασπιστής (ypaspistís) — assistant
- Indonesian: ajudan — assistant
- Macedonian: по́мошник (pómošnik) — assistant
- Manx: co-yantagh — assistant
- Māori: āpiha kaiāwhina — assistant
- Russian: помо́щник (pomóščnik) — assistant
- Russian: подру́чный (podrúčnyj) — assistant
- Dutch: maraboe — stork of genus Leptoptilos
- Estonian: marabu — stork of genus Leptoptilos
- Japanese: 禿鸛 (hagekou) — stork of genus Leptoptilos
- Russian: марабу́ (marabú) — stork of genus Leptoptilos
Real reading context