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Meaning of GENERAL

Pronunciation:  'jenurul

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 Definition: 
  1. [n]  a fact about the whole (as opposed to particular); "he discussed the general but neglected the particular"
  2. [n]  
  3. [adj]  prevailing among and common to the general public; "the general discontent"
  4. [adj]  of worldwide scope or applicability; "an issue of cosmopolitan import"; "the shrewdest political and ecumenical comment of our time"- Christopher Morley; "universal experience"
  5. [adj]  not specialized or limited to one class of things; "general studies"; "general knowledge"
  6. [adj]  applying to all or most members of a category or group; "the general public"; "general assistance"; "a general rule"; "in general terms"; "comprehensible to the general reader"
  7. [adj]  of national scope; "a general election"
  8. [adj]  (medicine) affecting the entire body; "a general anesthetic"; "general symptoms"
  9. [adj]  somewhat indefinite; "bearing a general resemblance to the original"; "a general description of the merchandise"
  10. [v]  command as a general; "We are generaled by an incompetent!"
 
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 Synonyms: all-purpose, as a whole(ip), at large(ip), at-large(ip), broad, common, comprehensive, cosmopolitan, ecumenical, full general, generalised, generalized, general-purpose, generic, gross, in general(ip), large-scale, mass, miscellaneous, national, oecumenical, overall, pandemic, pervading, pervasive, plain, popular, systemic, undiversified, universal, unspecific, unvaried, widespread, worldwide
 
 Antonyms: local, particular, specific, specific
 
 See Also: Agricola, Alcibiades, Andrew Jackson, Anthony, Antigonus, Antigonus Cyclops, Antonius, Antony, Arnold, Baron Clive, Baron Clive of Plassey, Baron Hugh Caswall Tremenheere Dowding, Belisarius, Belshazzar, Benedict Arnold, Bolivar, Bomber Harris, Bradley, Bragg, Braxton Bragg, Burgoyne, Butcher Cumberland, Caesar, Charles Andre Joseph Marie de Gaulle, Charles Cornwallis, Charles de Gaulle, Chiang Chung-cheng, Chiang Kai-shek, Churchill, Clark, Clausewitz, Clay, Clive, command, Cornwallis, Cromwell, Cumberland, Custer, Dayan, de Gaulle, Demetrius, Demetrius I, Demetrius Poliorcetes, Doolittle, Douglas MacArthur, Dowding, Dowdy, Duke of Cumberland, Duke of Marlborough, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Dwight David Eisenhower, Dwight Eisenhower, Eisenhower, El Caudillo, El Libertador, Eugene, fact, Fighting Joe Hooker, First Duke of Marlborough, First Marquess Cornwallis, Flaminius, Flavius Josephus, Francisco Franco, Franco, Gaius Falminius, Gaius Julius Caesar, Garibaldi, general officer, Gentleman Johnny, George Armstrong Custer, George Catlett Marshall, George Gordon Meade, George Marshall, Giuseppe Garibaldi, Gnaeus Julius Agricola, Grant, Groves, Hannibal, Harris, Hasdrubal, Hindenburg, Hiram Ulysses Grant, Holofernes, Hooker, Houston, Hugh Dowding, Ike, imprecise, indiscriminate, Ironsides, J. E. Johnston, Jackson, James Harold Doolittle, Jimmy Doolittle, John Burgoyne, John Churchill, Johnston, Joseph ben Matthias, Joseph Eggleston Johnston, Joseph Hooker, Josephus, Julius Caesar, Karl von Clausewitz, Lee, Leslie Richard Groves, Lucius Clay, Lucius DuBignon Clay, Lucius Licinius Luculus, Luculus, Lysander, Lysimachus, MacArthur, Marcus Antonius, Mark Anthony, Mark Antony, Mark Clark, Mark Wayne Clark, Marshall, Meade, Miltiades, Monophthalmos, Moshe Dayan, Old Hickory, Oliver Cromwell, Omar Bradley, Omar Nelson Bradley, Paul Ludwig von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg, Paul von Hindenburg, President Eisenhower, President Grant, Prince Eugene of Savoy, Robert Clive, Robert E Lee, Robert Edward Lee, Sam Houston, Samuel Houston, Simon Bolivar, Sir Arthur Travers Harris, Stonewall Jackson, Thomas J. Jackson, Thomas Jackson, Thomas Jonathan Jackson, Ulysses Grant, Ulysses S. Grant, Ulysses Simpson Grant, unspecialised, unspecialized, William Augustus

 

 

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Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. \Gen"er*al\, a. [F. g['e]n['e]ral, fr. L. generalis. See
{Genus}.]
1. Relating to a genus or kind; pertaining to a whole class
   or order; as, a general law of animal or vegetable
   economy.
2. Comprehending many species or individuals; not special or
   particular; including all particulars; as, a general
   inference or conclusion.
3. Not restrained or limited to a precise import; not
   specific; vague; indefinite; lax in signification; as, a
   loose and general expression.
4. Common to many, or the greatest number; widely spread;
   prevalent; extensive, though not universal; as, a general
   opinion; a general custom.
         This general applause and cheerful shout Argue your
         wisdom and your love to Richard.      --Shak.
5. Having a relation to all; common to the whole; as, Adam,
   our general sire. --Milton.
6. As a whole; in gross; for the most part.
         His general behavior vain, ridiculous. --Shak.
7. Usual; common, on most occasions; as, his general habit or
   method.
Note: The word general, annexed to a name of office, usually
      denotes chief or superior; as, attorney-general;
      adjutant general; commissary general; quartermaster
      general; vicar-general, etc.
{General agent} (Law), an agent whom a principal employs to
   transact all his business of a particular kind, or to act
   in his affairs generally.
{General assembly}. See the Note under {Assembly}.
{General average}, {General Court}. See under {Average},
   {Court}.
{General court-martial} (Mil.), the highest military and
   naval judicial tribunal.
{General dealer} (Com.), a shopkeeper who deals in all
   articles in common use.
{General demurrer} (Law), a demurrer which objects to a
   pleading in general terms, as insufficient, without
   specifying the defects. --Abbott.
{General epistle}, a canonical epistle.
{General guides} (Mil.), two sergeants (called the right, and
   the left, general guide) posted opposite the right and
   left flanks of an infantry battalion, to preserve accuracy
   in marching. --Farrow.
{General hospitals} (Mil.), hospitals established to receive
   sick and wounded sent from the field hospitals. --Farrow.
{General issue} (Law), an issue made by a general plea, which
   traverses the whole declaration or indictment at once,
   without offering any special matter to evade it.
   --Bouvier. --Burrill.
{General lien} (Law), a right to detain a chattel, etc.,
   until payment is made of any balance due on a general
   account.
{General officer} (Mil.), any officer having a rank above
   that of colonel.
{General orders} (Mil.), orders from headquarters published
   to the whole command.
{General practitioner}, in the United States, one who
   practices medicine in all its branches without confining
   himself to any specialty; in England, one who practices
   both as physician and as surgeon.
{General ship}, a ship not chartered or let to particular
   parties.
{General term} (Logic), a term which is the sign of a general
   conception or notion.
{General verdict} (Law), the ordinary comprehensive verdict
   in civil actions, ``for the plaintiff'' or ``for the
   defendant''. --Burrill.
{General warrant} (Law), a warrant, now illegal, to apprehend
   suspected persons, without naming individuals.
Syn: Syn. {General}, {Common}, {Universal}.
Usage: Common denotes primarily that in which many share; and
       hence, that which is often met with. General is
       stronger, denoting that which pertains to a majority
       of the individuals which compose a genus, or whole.
       Universal, that which pertains to all without
       exception. To be able to read and write is so common
       an attainment in the United States, that we may
       pronounce it general, though by no means universal.

  2. \Gen"er*al\, n. [F. g['e]n['e]ral. See {General}., a.]
1. The whole; the total; that which comprehends or relates to
   all, or the chief part; -- opposed to particular.
         In particulars our knowledge begins, and so spreads
         itself by degrees to generals.        --Locke.
2. (Mil.) One of the chief military officers of a government
   or country; the commander of an army, of a body of men not
   less than a brigade. In European armies, the highest
   military rank next below field marshal.
Note: In the United States the office of General of the Army
      has been created by temporary laws, and has been held
      only by Generals U. S. Grant, W. T. Sherman, and P. H.
      Sheridan.
 
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