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General

adjective

Applying to all or most members of a category or group. "General assistance" , "A general rule" , "In general terms" , "Comprehensible to the general reader"

Not specialized or limited to one class of things. "General knowledge"

Prevailing among and common to the general public.

Affecting the entire body. "General symptoms"

Somewhat indefinite. "A general description of the merchandise"

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

A general officer of the highest rank. Synonym: full general.

The head of a religious order or congregation. Synonym: superior general.

A fact about the whole (as opposed to particular).

verb

(past generalled; past part. generalled or generaled; pres. part. generalling or generaling)

Command as a general.

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"General" Quotes from Famous Books

... sixteen. Tutors still attended to give me lessons, St. Jerome still acted as general supervisor of my education, and, willy-nilly, I was being prepared for the University. In addition to my studies, my occupations included certain vague dreamings and ponderings, a number of gymnastic exercises to make myself the finest athlete in the world, a good deal of ...

— Youth • Leo Tolstoy

... the great General, followed by a courageous officer, came out of his little hut by the bridge, and gazed at the spectacle of this camp between the bank of the Beresina and the Borizof road to Studzianka. The thunder of the Russian cannonade had ceased. Here and there faces ...

— Farewell • Honore de Balzac

... eighteenth century, or now, can make a strong army merely by making the men afraid. But it does it with the permanent possibility that the men may some day be more afraid of their enemies than of their officers. Thus the drainage in our cities so long as it is quite solid means a general safety, but if there is one leak it means concentrated poison—an explosion of deathly germs like dynamite, a spirit of stink. Thus, indeed, all that excellent machinery which is the swiftest thing on earth in saving human labour is also the slowest thing ...

— The Ball and The Cross • G.K. Chesterton

... the onerous task of investigating the errors of Hansen's Lunar Tables as compared with observations prior to 1750. The results, published in 1878,[961] proved somewhat perplexing. They tend, in general, to reduce the amount of acceleration left unaccounted for by Laplace's gravitational theory, and proportionately to diminish the importance of the part played by tidal friction. But, in order to bring about ...

— A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century - Fourth Edition • Agnes M. (Agnes Mary) Clerke

... pattern of a modern major-general. And, like the great universal geniuses of the Renaissance, he has lived as well as thought and written. He is said to have been thirty times in prison, six times deputy; he has been a cowboy in the pampas of Argentina; he ...

— Rosinante to the Road Again • John Dos Passos

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