Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

field cornet

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.81 in modern English

Syllables: field- -cor-net
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

4

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A civilian official in a drostdy, invested with the authority of a military officer and empowered to act as a magistrate.

noun

The holder of a military rank equivalent to that of a lieutenant in the Boer armies as well as in the South African Army between 1960 and 1968.

Inflected Forms

field cornets (plural)

Phrases

assistant field cornet

Questions

What does field cornet mean?: A civilian official in a drostdy, invested with the authority of a military officer and empowered to act as a magistrate.

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