aide-de-camp
noun
a subordinate military or naval officer acting as a confidential assistant to a superior, usually to a general officer or admiral.
aides-de-camp
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pluralof aide-de-camp.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Several of his most valuable aides-de-camp, including writing partner Billy Strayhorn and star saxophonist Johnny Hodges, had struck out on their own, and for the only time, the Maestro’s own inspiration seemed to flag.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
He also wisely chose as his aides-de-camp a pair of young go-getters, Mike Tamburro and Lou Schwechheimer, both eager to sell pregame tickets and pick up postgame trash to make the venture work.
From New York Times ● Feb. 24, 2015
He rounded up eyewitness accounts of valets and those Napoleon treated as valets: mistresses, bodyguards and generals, tailors, aides-de-camp, and such luminaries of the age as Goethe and Metternich.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Governor-General had come with his aides-de-camp and his wife with her lady-in-waiting, Mrs. George Pape.
From Time Magazine Archive
General Crook was known to be in the garrison with his aides-de-camp, and we had not long to wait.
From Campaigning with Crook and Stories of Army Life by Charles King
