adjutant
nounHow many syllables in adjutant?
There are 3 syllables in the word adjutant.How to pronounce adjutant:
Definition of adjutant:
- adjutant (noun):
- an assistant
- large Indian stork with a military gait.
- a staff officer in the army, air force, or marine corps who assists the commanding officer and is responsible especially for correspondence
Synonyms for adjutant:
adjunct
adjutant bird
adjutant stork
aid
aide
aide-de-camp
apprentice
assistant
coadjutor
depute
deputy
employee
helper
helpmate
leptoptilus
leptoptilus dubius
lieutenant
maid
mate
number two
servant
sidekick
stork
subordinate
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- requiem
- quick-witted
- Javier
- instinctive
- impudent
- good-humored
- frivolous
- embankment
- dissident
- Desiree
- annoyance
- raucously
- Ptolemaic
- provision
- nauseating
- Napoli
- Mubarak
- impulsive
- depiction
- cognition
- caviar
- cathedral
- ancestral
- sanctity
- redolent
- impulse
- Guglielmo
- fluently
- derailing
- defeatist
- resumption
- pauperize
- millipede
- dopamine
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- armistice
- après-ski
- shiniest
- relevance
- overtly
- complainer
- befitting
- mystical
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