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General   /dʒˈɛnərəl/  /dʒˈɛnrəl/   Listen
General

adjective
1.
Applying to all or most members of a category or group.  "General assistance" , "A general rule" , "In general terms" , "Comprehensible to the general reader"
2.
Not specialized or limited to one class of things.  "General knowledge"
3.
Prevailing among and common to the general public.
4.
Affecting the entire body.  "General symptoms"
5.
Somewhat indefinite.  "A general description of the merchandise"
6.
Of worldwide scope or applicability.  Synonyms: cosmopolitan, ecumenical, oecumenical, universal, world-wide, worldwide.  "The shrewdest political and ecumenical comment of our time" , "Universal experience"
noun
1.
A general officer of the highest rank.  Synonym: full general.
2.
The head of a religious order or congregation.  Synonym: superior general.
3.
A fact about the whole (as opposed to particular).
verb
(past generalled; past part. generalled or generaled; pres. part. generalling or generaling)
1.
Command as a general.



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"General" Quotes from Famous Books



... weakness, as cause him to cry out, "It were well I should cease! Why should I mourn after life? Where were the good of prolonging it in a being like me? 'What should such fellows as I do crawling between heaven and earth!'" Such insights, when they come, the seers do their best, in general, to obscure; suspicion of themselves they regard as a monster, and would stifle. They resent the waking of such doubt. Any attempt at the raising in them of their buried best they regard as an offence against intercourse. A man takes his social life in his hand who dares it. Few therefore understand ...
— A Dish Of Orts • George MacDonald

... to join at the mouth of the Great Kanawha. One wing, the right or northernmost, was to be commanded by the earl in person; while the other, composed exclusively of frontiersmen living among the mountains west and southwest of the Blue Ridge, was entrusted to General Andrew Lewis. Lewis was a stalwart backwoods soldier, belonging to a family of famous frontier fighters, but though a sternly just and fearless man,[1] he does not appear to have had more than average qualifications to act as a commander of border troops when ...
— The Winning of the West, Volume One - From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1769-1776 • Theodore Roosevelt

... sixteen. And upon a table were the books he had taken from his trunk: Sartor Resartus, Virginibus Puerisque, Huckleberry Finn, and Afterwhiles. There were some other books in the trunk—a large one, which remained unremoved at the foot of the bed, adding to the general impression of transiency. It contained nearly all the possessions as well as the secret life of Bibbs Sheridan, and Bibbs sat beside it, the day after his interview with his father, raking over a small collection of manuscripts ...
— The Turmoil - A Novel • Booth Tarkington

... Fortnightly, besides an article on the prevailing epidemic, by Sir MORRELL MACKENZIE, M.D., which finishes with much the sort of general advice that was given by Mr. Justice Starleigh to Sam Weller, to the effect that "You had better be careful, Sir," whoever you are, who read this short, but generally interesting paper. There is an anonymous paper on an imaginary election at the Royal Academy, noticeable ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, 13 June 1891 • Various

... southward and that they intended to march on Paoting-fu itself. Three thousand of Yuan Shih Kai's troops had been ordered to go to Peking to prepare for the return of the Emperor and Empress Dowager, but the French general at Paoting-fu had forbade them coming beyond a point a hundred li south of Paoting-fu, so that they were then encamped there awaiting further orders. The Prefect hastily wired Viceroy Li Hung Chang ...
— An Inevitable Awakening • ARTHUR JUDSON BROWN


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