Noun: general
| Singular | general |
| Plural | generals |
Sample Sentences
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General Eisenhower was the first SACEUR.
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Hannibal was one of the greatest generals of the ancient world.
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We have dealt with the generals; now let us turn to the particulars.
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Then the servants left and there was only one, a General. A great deal of your comfort and happiness depends on having a good General. [1899, E. Nesbit, The Story of the Treasure Seekers:]
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My general is sister to your second housemaid. [1918 March, Rebecca West [pseudonym; Cicily Isabel Fairfield], chapter I, in The Return of the Soldier, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., published 1918, →OCLC, page 18:]
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Sure, this candidate is the favorite in the primary among the party faithful, but how is he going to do in the general?
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I work in general.
Nouns inflected like general
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁-
3. Proto-Indo-European *-os
4. Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁os
5. Proto-Italic *genos
6. Latin genus, generis
7. Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-
8. Proto-Indo-European *-is
9. Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.?
10. Proto-Italic *-ālis
11. Latin -ālis
12. Latin generālisbor.
13. Anglo-Norman generalbor.
14. Middle French generalbor.
15. ▲
16. Latin generālisder.
17. Middle English general
18. English general
19. From Middle English general, in turn from Anglo-Norman general, generall, Middle French general, and their source, Latin generālis, from genus (“class, kind”) + -ālis (“-al”). See: Middle English Nouns '
general', Latin Nouns '
generālis'.