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# marshal

«marshal» in Mova's school dictionary: **an officer of high rank in an army, or an official who…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (marshal, marshals); verb (marshal, marshals, marshalled, marshalling)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A marshal is an officer of high rank in an army, or an official who keeps order at a big event. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/marshal/#m1)

2) To marshal people is to gather them and arrange them in order. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/marshal/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

a court official or leader who speaks to the king in a tale; in the lessons a marshal can also mean to put things in order

### examples

- Hardly had he made the wish than the marshal spoke to the king. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/marshal/#x1)
- The marshal led the parade. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/marshal/#x2)
- The teacher marshalled the children into a line. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/marshal/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### In the corpora

- [Trampoline parks have one person per bed and marshals to stop collisions.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/73-trampolines-playgrounds-and-skate-parks/9/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «marshal» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/marshal/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.