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general


Definition: Meaning of, general in English to English dictionary.

Pronunciation: / ˈdʒɛn(ə)r(ə)l /

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  1. not detailed describing or relating to only the main features or parts of something, not the details
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  2. relating to whole involving the whole of a situation, group, or thing, rather than specific parts of it
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  3. ordinary ordinary or usual
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  4. most people shared by or affecting most people, or most of the people in a group
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  5. not limited not limited to one use, activity, subject etc
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  6. approximate used to talk about an approximate area or direction
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  7. job used in the name of a job to show that the person who does it has complete responsibility
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general generals
  1. [countable] an officer of very high rank in the army or air force
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  2. in general usually or in most situations
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  3. in general used when talking about the whole of a situation, group, or thing, rather than specific parts of it
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general used in phrases

  • Attorney General (noun)
    1. the person who holds the position of secretary of the Justice Department
    2. the position of the head of the Justice Department and the chief law enforcement officer of the United States
  • Attorney General of the United States (noun)
    1. the position of the head of the Justice Department and the chief law enforcement officer of the United States
  • Comptroller General (noun)
    1. a United States federal official who supervises expenditures and settles claims against the government
  • Custer, General George Armstrong
    1. (1839-76) a US soldier who first became famous in the American CIVIL WAR . He was killed, with all the men he was in command of, by Native Americans from the Sioux tribe led by CRAZY HORSE and SITTING BULL, in the Battle of the LITTLE BIGHORN . This battle is also known as Custer's Last Stand .
  • Einstein's general theory of relativity (noun)
    1. based on the principle of equivalence a generalization of special relativity to include gravity
  • Estates General (noun)
    1. assembly of the estates of all France; last meeting in 1789
  • General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (noun)
    1. a United Nations agency created by a multinational treaty to promote trade by the reduction of tariffs and import quotas
  • General Assembly (noun)
    1. the supreme deliberative assembly of the United Nations
  • General Assembly, the
    1. the group that represents all of the countries which belong to the UNITED NATIONS . Its members meet regularly to discuss plans and vote on suggestions, with each country having one vote
    2. a group that meets to make laws in some of the states of the US
  • General Baptist (noun)
    1. who opposed the doctrine of strict predestination of the Calvinists group of Baptist congregations believing the teachings of the Dutch theologian Jacobus Arminius
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