Coronel vs Colonel - What's the difference?
coronel | colonel | Alternative forms |
A commissioned officer in the army, air force, or marine corps. In U.S. military, it ranks above a lieutenant colonel and below a brigadier general.
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Colonel is a alternative form of coronel.
As nouns the difference between coronel and colonel
is that coronel is the head of a spear; a cronel while colonel is a commissioned officer in the army, air force, or marine corps. In U.S. military, it ranks above a lieutenant colonel and below a brigadier general.colonel
English
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(en noun)- The colonel and his sponsor made a queer contrast: Greystone long and stringy, with a face that seemed as if a cold wind was eternally playing on it. […] But there was not a more lascivious reprobate and gourmand in all London than this same Greystone.