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Meanings of aide-de-camp in English

Portuguese
ajudante-de-ordens
Catalan
ajudant
Spanish
aide-de-camp

An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.

        ajudante-de-ordens
        Russian
        адъютант
        Portuguese
        ajudante de ordens
        Catalan
        ajudant de camp
        Spanish
        edecán

        Personal assistant or secretary to a person of high rank.

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              Usage of aide-de-camp in English
              1
              He was, he slowly came to understand, an aide-de-camp, and a captain.
              The street philosopher
              2
              He announced that he is retaining the Bronson woman as his aide-de-camp.
              The Sails of Tau Ceti
              3
              She's my most reliable aide-de-camp when I'm doing serious work of my own.
              Body work
              4
              The former Taoiseach has already retained his aide-de-camp in his newly beefed-up role.
              Independent.ie
              5
              That was how the Princess and the aide-de-camp's sister had come to her.
              The Rains Came
              6
              Herod was announced by his aide-de-camp, and assigned to his quarters.
              The Memoirs of Cleopatra
              7
              Apollinaris took the sheet of paper from his aide-de-camp and ran quickly down the names.
              Roma eterna
              8
              Spotting her difficulty, an aide-de-camp from Raglan's staff came down the hill to her side.
              The street philosopher
              9
              Hawke was followed by his now deeply trusted aide-de-camp, Abdul "Absolutely!"
              Warlord: an alex hawke novel
              10
              The Count read to me these words from Philippe-Paul de Segur, Napoleons aide-de-camp: Everyone was silent.
              A monster's notes
              11
              That's not what Maximus here tells me.' The General indicated his aide-de-camp with a languid gesture.
              The Last Gladiatrix
              12
              There an aide-de-camp rose and came toward them.
              The Rains Came
              13
              The messages were taken, alternately, by the king's aides-de-camp and the marshal's.
              With Frederick the Great: A Story of the Seven Years' War
              14
              She drops her final g's like a barmaid or a blue-blooded Aide-de-Camp.
              The Works of Rudyard Kipling: One Volume Edition
              15
              Aide-de-camps gather in shoals in anterooms, one indistinguishable from the other.
              The Guardian
              16
              The other, Mrs. Gupta, was a widow, the sister of one of the Maharani's aides-de-camp.
              The Rains Came
              Frequent collocations
              Translations for aide-de-camp
              Aide-de-camp through the time