corporals's Usage Examples:

Finally, a sergeant was identified by his red knotted cloth on his right shoulder while corporals wore green shoulder knots.

Every army is composed of lower grades of the service--the rank and file--of whom there are always the greatest number; of the next higher military rank--corporals and noncommissioned officers of whom there are fewer, and of still-higher officers of whom there are still fewer, and so on to the highest military command which is concentrated in one person.

4d.; corporals, is.

The democrats hated Prussia as the land of the corporals stick, and Bismarck as the very incarna-~ tion of her spirit.

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Yet in some Tusban provinces, as, for instance, that of Grosseto, where malaria rages, laborers are organized in gangs under corporals, who undertake harvest work.

Synonyms:

noncom, noncommissioned officer, enlisted officer,

Antonyms:

insubstantiality, insubstantial, immaterial, insulator,