Definitions for adjutant

adjutant ad·ju·tant

Spelling: [aj-uh-tuh nt]
IPA: /ˈædʒ ə tənt/

Adjutant is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 100 anagrams from letters in adjutant (aadjnttu).

Definitions for adjutant

noun

  1. Military. a staff officer who assists the commanding officer in issuing orders.
  2. British Military. an executive officer.
  3. an assistant.
  4. adjutant stork.

Origin of adjutant

1590-1600; Latin adjūtant- (stem of adjūtāns, present participle of adjūtāre to help, assist), equivalent to ad- ad- + jū- (variant stem of juvāre to help) + -t- freque

Examples for adjutant

Yet as they went the adjutant's eyes raked the ballroom in quest of his wife.

It was not for Dom Miguel to know that it was the adjutant's fate that was being decided.

The interrogation, which seemed almost to cover a reproach, irritated the adjutant.

"Then go at once and get the key from the adjutant," said Lieutenant Santierra.

As adjutant my place had been with the colonel at the head of the column.

For many years he was adjutant general of the state of Nebraska.

He came to lean upon O'Moy's writing-table, facing the adjutant.

"Ye can always thrash an impudent fellow," opined the adjutant.

The adjutant's last order crisped, coldly metallic, soldierly as ever.

Then they break into platoons, and are inspected, man by man, by the adjutant and his aides.

Word Value for adjutant
Scrable

16

Words with friends

20

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