1. colonel - Noun
2. colonel - Verb
The chief officer of a regiment; an officer ranking next above a lieutenant colonel and next below a brigadier general.
Source: Webster's dictionaryMany years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice. Gabriel García Márquez
Great God of the Ants, thou hast granted victory to thy servants. I appoint thee honorary Colonel. Karel Čapek
Our quarrel is not with Egypt, still less with the Arab world. It is with Colonel Nasser. He has shown that he is not a man who can be trusted to keep an agreement. Now he has torn up all his country's promises to the Suez Canal Company and has even gone back on his own statements. Anthony Eden
She has great breasts," the Colonel said without looking up from the whale. "DO NOT OBJECTIFY WOMEN'S BODIES!" Alaska shouted. Now he looked up. "Sorry. Perky breasts." "That's not any better! John Green (author)
And we'll call you... hmmm. Pudge." "Huh?" "Pudge," the Colonel said. "Because you're skinny. It's called irony, Pudge. Heard of it? Now, let's go get some cigarettes and start this year off right. John Green (author)
He lived a colonel but died a corpse. Russian Proverb