adjutant : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: adjutant	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for adjutant
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
adjutant n an officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer Synonym(s): adjutant, aide, aide-de-camp large Indian stork with a military gait Synonym(s): adjutant bird, adjutant, adjutant stork, Leptoptilus dubius
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Adjutant \Ad"jutant\, n. [L. adjutans, p. pr. of adjutare to help. See {Aid}.] 1. A helper; an assistant. 2. (Mil.) A regimental staff officer, who assists the colonel, or commanding officer of a garrison or regiment, in the details of regimental and garrison duty. {Adjutant* general} (a) (Mil.), the principal staff officer of an army, through whom the commanding general receives communications and issues military orders. In the U. S. army he is brigadier general. (b) (Among the Jesuits), one of a select number of fathers, who resided with the general of the order, each of whom had a province or country assigned to his care. 3. (Zo[94]l.) A species of very large stork ({Ciconia argala}), a native of India; -- called also the {gigantic crane}, and by the native name {argala}. It is noted for its serpent-destroying habits.