adjutant, aide, aide-de-camp
(noun) an officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer
Source: WordNet® 3.1
adjutant (plural adjutants)
(military rank) A lower-ranking officer who assists a higher-ranking officer with administrative affairs.
An assistant.
(zoology) Any bird of the genus Leptoptilos, a branch of the stork family (Ciconiidae) native to India and Southeast Asia.
• (bird): adjutant bird
• greater adjutant (Leptoptilos dubius); lesser adjutant (L. javanicus); marabou (L. crumeniferus)
adjutant (not comparable)
Assistant; who helps a higher-ranking officer.
• adj.
• adjt.
Source: Wiktionary
Ad"ju*tant, n. Etym: [L. adjutans, p. pr. of adjutare to help. See Aid.]
1. A helper; an assistant.
2. (Mil.)
Definition: A regimental staff officer, who assists the colonel, or commanding officer of a garrison or regiment, in the details of regimental and garrison duty. Adjutant general (a) (Mil.), the principal staff officer of an army, through whom the commanding general receives communications and issues military orders. In the U. S. army he is brigadier general. (b) (Among the Jesuits), one of a select number of fathers, who resided with the general of the order, each of whom had a province or country assigned to his care.
3. (Zoöl.)
Definition: A species of very large stork (Ciconia argala), a native of India; -- called also the gigantic crane, and by the native name argala. It is noted for its serpent-destroying habits.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
7 June 2025
(noun) a unit of astronomical length based on the distance from Earth at which stellar parallax is 1 second of arc; equivalent to 3.262 light years
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
