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Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th
colonel
col·onel [colonel colonels] BrE [ˈkɜːnl] NAmE [ˈkɜːrnl] noun (abbr.Col.)
an officer of high rank in the army, the ↑marines, or the US ↑air force
•Colonel Jim Edge
Word Origin:
mid 16th cent.: from obsolete French coronel (earlier form of colonel), from Italian colonnello ‘column of soldiers’, from colonna ‘column’, from Latin columna. The form coronel, source of the modern pronunciation, was usual until the mid 17th cent.
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