General is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for GENERAL in dictionary:

VERB:
• to act as a military officer
• command as a general
• act as a general
NOUN:
• a commander of an army, or an army officer of very high rank.
• a high rank of officer in the army and in the US air force, above lieutenant general and below field marshal, general of the army, or general of the air force.
• the head of a religious order organized on quasi-military lines, e.g. the Jesuits, the Dominicans, or the Salvation Army.
• the general public.
• a general officer of the highest rank
• the head of a religious order or congregation
• a fact about the whole (as opposed to particular)
• very senior army officer
ADJECTIVE:
• widespread
• affecting or concerning all or most people or things; widespread
• not specialized or limited in range of subject, application, activity, etc.
• (of a rule, principle, etc.) true for all or most cases.
• normal or usual
• considering or including only the main features or elements of something; not exact or detailed
• chief or principal
• common or widespread
• Relating to a genus or kind; pertaining to a whole class or order; as, a general law of animal or vegetable economy.
• Comprehending many species or individuals; not special or particular; including all particulars; as, a general inference or conclusion.
• Not restrained or limited to a precise import; not specific; vague; indefinite; lax in signification; as, a loose and general expression.
• Common to many, or the greatest number; widely spread; prevalent; extensive, though not universal; as, a general opinion; a general custom.
• Having a relation to all; common to the whole; as, Adam, our general sire.
• As a whole; in gross; for the most part.
• Usual; common, on most occasions; as, his general habit or method.
• The whole; the total; that which comprehends or relates to all, or the chief part; -- opposed to particular.
• One of the chief military officers of a government or country; the commander of an army, of a body of men not less than a brigade. In European armies, the highest military rank next below field marshal.
• The roll of the drum which calls the troops together; as, to beat the general.
• The chief of an order of monks, or of all the houses or congregations under the same rule.
• The public; the people; the vulgar.
• applying to all or most members of a category or group
• not specialized or limited to one class of things
• prevailing among and common to the general public
• affecting the entire body
• somewhat indefinite
• of worldwide scope or applicability

Words related to GENERAL

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Words that contain GENERAL

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How to use GENERAL in a sentence

• In April Lord John Russell carried his motion for the appropriation of the surplus revenues of the Irish Church to general moral and religious purposes, so Peel resigned.
• It was now practically between Dublin, commanded by Jones, the Parliamentary general, upon one side, and all Ireland under Ormond and the now united Confederates on the other.
• The latter of these passages has often been referred to as a model for such operations, and certainly does credit to the general who directed it.
• The two other French ships of the line got up during the forenoon of the 21st, so that the action that afternoon, though desultory, might be called general.
• In this condition of affairs, a general attack upon the Austrian positions was made by the French on the morning of November 24.
• Upon general naval questions he had, however, something to say.
• The nephew of General Dubois writes a letter full of invective and gall against the convention.
• Unfortunately the hopes of the Major General were not realised.
• Later in the century, the general question revived in immediate interest under a new form.
• It is true, times have changed, and I believe that Clarke, the French general, with whom we dined again to-day, does not like the title much.
• Let us see what others thought and what was the general situation during the revolution.
• Its general resemblance to the latter is very striking.
• Twenty-five thousand men were sent to Minnesota, under General Pope, and employed against the Sioux.
• General Arthur Sandes, a native of Dublin, was entrusted with an important garrison in Peru on the close of the War of Independence.
• He was living in Paris and came back on the day of the general mobilization.
• Joab, the commander of the Israelitish army, was a consummate general, and the veterans he led had been trained to conquer.
• It happened that the major was captured by the savages, and it devolved upon the general to bear the melancholy tidings to Mrs.
• Ten minutes later, dirty, ragged and unkempt, they once more stood before General Gallieni.
• All these things they had done in a joint, or general, council, which had been held at Armstrong Academy the previous November.
• But they want, in the general sense, to manage their own local affairs.
• The general dissatisfaction with the state of the currency led to attempts to dispense with coin.
• He was not able to stay the general retreat, but he hoped at least to join Joubert and cover it with the aid of the besieging force.
• In view of the tentacles with which Great Britain was grasping South Africa and of the general situation, the decision of the Council of War was a morally courageous act.
• Godard It is, after all, merely a matter of five francs, General.

Similar words containing GENER without suffix al

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