corporal
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4.3
- noun
- /ˈkɔr.pər.əl/
- Specialized
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- And you, Corporal Garrett, will be marked for insubordination.
- lance corporal
- specialist to corporal
And then corporal Young gets hit while he's shooting on the saw.
- And then corporal Young gets hit while he's shooting on the saw.
- And I'm, I'm not sure, you know, I never, my corporal and I never really had a chance to talk about it afterward.
- I don't know what had happened in the middle, but I knew that he'd lost everything, come back, join the Corps and was now corporal again and heading for Sergeant.
- But it's like in war, you know, if two soldiers are talking and the Sergeant says, you know, you're scared, Corporal.
- And yeah, I was picked as one of the the sort of first corporals, first section commanders to go down and sort of to take part in that.
- My name is Steve Nikui, I'm the father of Lance Corporal Kareem M Nikui and your administration killed my son.
- Now I had this one being the corporal, he was in charge of that one dirty book, the one escort, you know, The Dirty magazine.
Examples
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Were you and Corporal Schwalb close?
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Corporal Smith has been hit!
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I told him what the corporal had said.
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"Sir?" his corporal asked from his desk on the other side of the room.
Fiction book (1991) -
Commander, I want to talk to Corporal Dawson alone for a minute.
Fiction book (1992) -
Corporal, round up some volunteers to take this animal to the stables.
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Captain Lewis and a corporal were loudly trying to bring some order to the confusion.
Fiction book (1992) -
Howard, a marine corporal, is waiting by the stairway as the passengers begin to get off.
Fiction book (1992) -
- Good work, Corporal.
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The corporal instructed the recruits on their next mission.
Synonyms
5
6.1
Short form for corporal, a low-ranking soldier who leads a small group
2
8.1
A military leader who used to be a soldier and commands a small group
2
6.2
A military person promoted from lower ranks who leads and trains soldiers
A low-ranking soldier who leads a small group of soldiers
Compounds
How Senior
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word corporal as a rank can be remembered by thinking of a small 'body' of soldiers. It is tied to the same root corpus 'body', so a corporal is a low-ranking leader who looks after a small group of soldiers.