military officer

member of an armed force or uniformed service who holds a position of authority
Intangible military_profession Q189290
military officer
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Summary

military officer is a military profession[1]. It ranks in the top 7% of military profession entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (7,076 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: military personnel[3], officer[4]
  • Commons category: Military officers[5]
  • Opposite of: enlisted person[6]
  • Has part(s): army officer[7], naval officer[8], air force officer[9], Marine officer[10]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Military officers[11]
  • Described by source: Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia[12], Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[13], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[14], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[15], Yuzhakov Big Encyclopedia[16], Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language[17], Sytin Military Encyclopedia[18], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[19]
  • Different from: Officer[20], Q108878913[21]
  • Female form of label: ضابطة[22], oficial[23], oficiala[24], důstojnice[25], Of­fi­zie­rin[26], oficirino[27], officier[28], קצינה[29], Offizéiesch[30], častnica[31], офіцерка[32], ofiserez[33], karininkė[34]
  • Exact match: http://wordnet-rdf.princeton.edu/wn30/10317007-n[35], http://wordnet-rdf.princeton.edu/wn31/110251362-n[36]
  • Male form of label: Offizier[37], oficirulo[38], Offizéier[39], oficial[40], ufficiale[41], karininkas[42], ofițer militar[43]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[44]

Why It Matters

military officer has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[45] It is known by 65 alternative names across languages and contexts.[46]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  18. [20] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
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  26. [28] ↑ . larousse.fr. larousse.fr. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  42. [44] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [45] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [46] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 18w ago · Clemens Dulcis · 2026-06-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Related category → Q7005501
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Related category: Category:Military officers by nationality"
  2. 18w ago · MariuszRokin · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → ['0371040-dustojnice', '0242406-dustojnici']
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  3. 18w ago · MariuszRokin · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → ['0371040-dustojnice', '0242406-dustojnici']
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  4. 21w ago · JhealdBatch · 2026-05-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Isco-08 occupation class → 0110
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  5. 22w ago · Yukkuri Shambis · 2026-05-15 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Said to be the same as → Q11458578
    Local thumb → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Said to be the same as: 将校"
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