noun. A staff officer who helps a commanding officer with administrative affairs.

noun. An assistant.

noun. Either of two large Asian storks (Leptoptilos dubius or L. javanicus) having a head and neck bare of feathers, black wings, and white underparts.

Helping; assistant. Bullokar (1676).

noun. A helper; an assistant; an aid.

noun. Milit., properly, a regimental staff-officer appointed to assist the commanding officer of a regiment in the discharge of the details of his military duty.

noun. The adjutant-bird (which see).

noun. A helper; an assistant.

noun. A regimental staff officer, who assists the colonel, or commanding officer of a garrison or regiment, in the details of regimental and garrison duty.

noun. one of a select number of fathers, who resided with the general of the order, each of whom had a province or country assigned to his care.

noun. A species of very large stork (Ciconia argala), a native of India; -- called also the gigantic crane, and by the native name argala. It is noted for its serpent-destroying habits.

noun. A lower-ranking officer who assists a higher-ranking officer with administrative affairs.

noun. An assistant.

noun. A bird in the genus Leptoptilos of the stork family Ciconiidae.

adjective. The noun used as a modifier (e.g. adjutant officer).

noun. an officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer

noun. large Indian stork with a military gait

"This was said in such a pleasant manner I almost concluded the general had been misrepresented, but how changed his tone when he called his adjutant, who in an instant stood before him."

adjuvant  aid  post adjutant  regimental adjutant  

Greater Adjutant  Lesser Adjutant  

stork  

adjutant general  aide  brigadier  bustard  chaplain  

acolyte  adj.  adjt.  agent  aid  

argala  gigantic crane