brevet
Americannoun
verb (used with object)
noun
verb
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of brevet
1325–75; Middle English < Anglo-French; Old French brievet. See brief, -et
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
See Examples For:
I hereby grant you the rank of brevet colonel in the army of the level-headed, Pacific Command.
From Fox News ● Nov. 27, 2019
Rolling in after 407km, we got our brevet cards stamped and tucked into warming bowls of homemade daal.
From The Guardian ● May 31, 2018
Instead of settling down to the law after he left Harvard, 26-year-old Charles went dashing off to the Civil War, rose to the rank of brevet brigadier general.
From Time Magazine Archive
Cavalry drew fresh supplies from the hold of the Far West, galloped off under command of a dashing, handsome 37-year-old brevet major general who wore a flowing red tie and had distinguished himself at Gettysburg.
From Time Magazine Archive
The "major" came afterwards "by brevet," and Vinton had settled down into contentedly following the old life, though in a less exciting time and exalted capacity.
From Kitty's Conquest by Charles King
By the time the Big Parade was over, Hero York had been lionized, publicized, feted, decorated and breveted "the one-man army."
From Time Magazine Archive
Ten years after the battle of Niagara, Major Worth was breveted a lieutenant colonel, and when in 1832 the ordnance corps was established, he became one of its majors.
From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII. No. 5. May 1848 by Robert Taylor Conrad
A drummer-boy at fourteen in the War of the Rebellion, a private at sixteen and eighteen, he had subsequently been breveted for conspicuous military service.
From The Titan by Theodore Dreiser
He saw much active service, and was breveted a Major General July 26, 1865.
From History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States by William Horatio Barnes
“D’you know you’ve been breveted to senior field man?”
From Missing Link by Frank Patrick Herbert
A dog hunting through a wood is always said to be "breveting."
From A Cotswold Village by J. Arthur Gibbs
After the war’s end, Otis was brevetted with the rank of lieutenant colonel by his commander Rutherford B. Hayes, who commended Otis for his “gallantry and meritorious services.”
From Salon ● Feb. 7, 2016
Into the breach sped an army of energetic amateurs who were soon brevetted with official status.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was brevetted major-general in the regular army and appointed major-general of volunteers.
From Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 6 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History by Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne
He asked to be assigned to cavalry duty, but was brevetted second lieutenant of the 4th Infantry, and ordered to Jefferson Barracks, near St. Louis.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 by Various
Was brevetted lieutenant-colonel U.S.A. for gallant and meritorious services at the battle of Fredericksburg.
From The Battle of the Big Hole A History of General Gibbon's Engagement with Nez Percés Indians in the Big Hole Valley, Montana, August 9th, 1877. by G. O. Shields
Random Word
Spin the wheel and learn a new word!
Get a wordDefinitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
