brigadier

noun

1. British Military. a rank between colonel and major general.
2. U.S. Army Informal. a brigadier general.
3. History/Historical. a noncommissioned rank in the Napoleonic armies.

noun

1. an officer of the British Army or Royal Marines who holds a rank junior to a major general but senior to a colonel, usually commanding a brigade
2. an equivalent rank in other armed forces
3. US army short for brigadier general
4. history a noncommissioned rank in the armies of Napoleon I