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| 1. | [ adjective ] applying to all or most members of a category or group | |
| Examples: | "the general public" "general assistance" "a general rule" "in general terms" "comprehensible to the general reader" |
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| Related terms: | specific overall widespread mass miscellaneous broad as_a_whole pervading generalised gross generalized general-purpose all-purpose plain at-large generic at-large pandemic comprehensive imprecise unspecialized indiscriminate generality | |
| 2. | [ noun ] (military,work) a general officer of the highest rank | |
| Synonyms: | full_general | |
| Related terms: | general_officer Napoleon Belshazzar Lee Washington Caesar Hannibal Jackson Burgoyne Lysander Demetrius Cromwell Antony Saxe belisarius Hasdrubal clark clay charles_cornwallis Lysimachus charles_andre_joseph_marie_de_gaulle Pompey Scipio Ike Seleucus Sulla Flaminius Bolivar j._e._johnston lucius_licinius_luculus 1st_viscount_montgomery_of_alamein bradley chiang_chung-cheng churchill siraj-ud-daula clausewitz anthony_wayne baron_clive a._e._burnside butcher_cumberland custer dayan douglas_macarthur doolittle baron_hugh_caswall_tremenheere_dowding eugene el_caudillo groves bomber_harris hindenburg holofernes fighting_joe_hooker houston jackson agricola flavius_josephus Garibaldi george_catlett_marshall george_gordon_meade alcibiades miltiades billy_mitchell arnold duc_d'elchingen black_jack_pershing george_edward_pickett comte_de_rochambeau antonio_lopez_de_santa_ana scott sherman Grant joseph_warren_stilwell albrecht_eusebius_wenzel_von_wallenstein archibald_percival_wavell Bragg arthur_wellesley xenophon georgi_konstantinovich_zhukov Antigonus colin_luther_powell military | |
| 3. | [ adjective ] not specialized or limited to one class of things | |
| Examples: | "general studies" "general knowledge" |
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| Related terms: | undiversified | |
| 4. | [ adjective ] of national scope | |
| Examples: | "a general election" |
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| Related terms: | national | |
| 5. | [ adjective ] prevailing among and common to the general public | |
| Examples: | "the general discontent" |
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| Related terms: | common | |
| 6. | [ verb ] (military) command as a general | |
| Examples: | "We are generaled by an incompetent!" |
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| Related terms: | command | |
| 7. | [ adjective ] (medicine) affecting the entire body | |
| Examples: | "a general anesthetic" "general symptoms" |
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| Related terms: | local medicine systemic generalised generalized | |
| 8. | [ adjective ] somewhat indefinite | |
| Examples: | "bearing a general resemblance to the original" "a general description of the merchandise" |
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| Related terms: | imprecise | |
| 9. | [ adjective ] of worldwide scope or applicability | |
| Synonyms: | universal ecumenical oecumenical worldwide cosmopolitan | |
| Examples: | "an issue of cosmopolitan import" "the shrewdest political and ecumenical comment of our time"- Christopher Morley "universal experience" |
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| Related terms: | comprehensive | |
| 10. | [ noun ] the head of a religious order or congregation | |
| Synonyms: | superior_general | |
| Related terms: | head | |
| 11. | [ noun ] a fact about the whole (as opposed to particular) | |
| Examples: | "he discussed the general but neglected the particular" |
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| Related terms: | particular particular fact | |
| Similar spelling: |
generally generalize generality generalist generalise |
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