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generals

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Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • UK Pronunciation
    • UK IPA
    • /-ɚ-/
    • /ˈdʒen.ər.əl/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • /-ɚ-/

Definitions of generals word

  • noun generals Plural form of general. 1
  • noun generals plural of general. 0
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Parts of speech for Generals

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
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generals popularity

A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 89% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".

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Synonyms for generals

noun generals

  • controllers — Plural form of controller.
  • masters — a degree awarded by a graduate school or department, usually to a person who has completed at least one year of graduate study.
  • admirals — Plural form of admiral.
  • commandants — Plural form of commandant.
  • overheads — over one's head; aloft; up in the air or sky, especially near the zenith: There was a cloud overhead.

adjective generals

  • overalls — overalls, (used with a plural verb) loose, sturdy trousers, usually with a bib or biblike piece to which shoulder straps are attached, originally worn over other trousers to protect them, as by factory workers or farmers. long waterproof leggings.
  • broads — a group of shallow navigable lakes, connected by a network of rivers, in E England, in Norfolk and Suffolk
  • commons — people not of noble birth viewed as forming a political order
  • comprehensives — Plural form of comprehensive.
  • collectives — Plural form of collective.
All 18 Synonyms of generals

Antonyms for generals

adjective generals

  • specifics — having a special application, bearing, or reference; specifying, explicit, or definite: to state one's specific purpose.
  • eccentrics — Plural form of eccentric; persons who have unusual tendancies.
  • particulars — of or relating to a single or specific person, thing, group, class, occasion, etc., rather than to others or all; special rather than general: one's particular interests in books.
  • privates — belonging to some particular person: private property.
  • novels — Roman Law. an imperial enactment subsequent and supplementary to an imperial compilation and codification of authoritative legal materials. Usually, Novels. imperial enactments subsequent to the promulgation of Justinian's Code and supplementary to it: one of the four divisions of the Corpus Juris Civilis.
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