brigadier general

noun

: a commissioned officer in the army, air force, or marine corps who ranks above a colonel and whose insignia is one star

Examples of brigadier general in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Zolghadr reached the rank of brigadier general in the Guard. — CBS News, 24 Mar. 2026

Inside a black metal cage at the courtroom’s edge, three men waited silently to face the chief judge, a burly brigadier general in the Lebanese Army. — Euan Ward, New Yorker, 29 May 2026

Fuller and Harris, a retired brigadier general and cattle producer, would have had to win at least half of the vote outright to avoid the April 7 runoff. — The Hill, 11 Mar. 2026

After the war, Iran’s supreme leader at the time, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, appointed Ghalibaf, who is a brigadier general, to be the head of the Revolutionary Guard’s air force. — Babak Dehghanpisheh, NBC news, 27 Mar. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1690, in the meaning defined above

Kids Definition

brigadier general

noun

brig·​a·​dier general

ˌbrig-ə-ˈdi(ə)r-

: a military commissioned officer with a rank just below major general