brigadier

Borrowed from French brigadier. Equivalent to brigade +‎ -ier.

• IPA^(key): /bɹɪɡəˈdɪɚ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)

brigadier (plural brigadiers)

1. (military) An army rank; an officer commanding a brigade.
2. (military, UK) A field officer of the highest grade, below general officers, NATO grade O7.
3. Ellipsis of brigadier general.
4. (historical) The head of a workforce in the Soviet Union.
   • 1952, The Soviet Bloc as Reported by Former Nationals Interview Report:

     The supervisory staff of the farm did their work well, according to the source. All the brigadiers were old, experienced workers who knew their business.

• → Afrikaans: brigadier
• → Malay: brigedier
• → Swahili: brigedia

• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “brigadier”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.

• brigadier on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• air bridge, airbridge

Borrowed from English brigadier.

brigadier (plural brigadiers)

1. (military, historical) Most senior field officer rank, similar usage to the English term in the United Kingdom; brigadier

• Smaldone, Joseph P. (1997). "National Security". In Byrnes, Rita M. (ed.). South Africa: a country study. Area Handbook (3rd ed.). Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress. pp. 378.

Borrowed from French brigadier.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbri.ɣaːˈdiːr/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: bri‧ga‧dier
• Rhymes: -iːr

brigadier m (plural brigadiers, no diminutive)

1. constable (police officer of some seniority)
2. (historical) brigadier, corporal, or a colonel in charge of a brigade

• → Indonesian: brigadir
• → Papiamentu: brigadir
• → Sranan Tongo: brigadiri

From brigade +‎ -ier.

• IPA^(key): /bʁi.ɡa.dje/

• Audio (France (Toulouse)):

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• Audio (France (Somain)):

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• Rhymes: -je
• Homophone: brigadiers

brigadier m (plural brigadiers, feminine brigadière)

1. brigadier (military)
2. (cavalry) Military rank equivalent to corporal
3. crossing guard
   • 2023 February 1 (last accessed), Careers - Jobs - Ottawa Safety Council‎^[1]:

     Être Brigadier

     Become a Crossing Guard

• → Dutch: brigadier
  • → Indonesian: brigadir
  • → Papiamentu: brigadir
  • → Sranan Tongo: brigadiri
• → English: brigadier
• → Romanian: brigadier
• → Spanish: brigadier

• “brigadier”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Borrowed from French brigadier.

• IPA^(key): /bri.ɡa.diˈer/

brigadier m (plural brigadieri, feminine equivalent brigadieră)

1. brigadier (military)
2. forester (forestry)

   Synonyms: brigadier silvic, brigadier forestier

3. (dated) brigadier general

   Synonym: general de brigadă

• brigadă

• “brigadier”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2026

• IPA^(key): /bɾiɡaˈdjeɾ/ [bɾi.ɣ̞aˈð̞jeɾ]
• Rhymes: -eɾ
• Syllabification: bri‧ga‧dier

brigadier m (plural brigadieres or brigadiers)

1. brigadier

• “brigadier”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025