(military) The military officer title

(informal, medicine) Short for General Hospital. or "X General Hospital" (where X is a stand-in for another part of the name), a common hospital name.

simple past tense and past participle of general

In the general case; without further assumption; without qualification; in all respects. / As a rule; usually.

(obsolete) In a general or collective manner or sense; in most cases; upon the whole.

Including or involving every part or member of a given or implied entity, whole etc.; as opposed to specific or particular.

(now rare) A general fact or proposition; a generality.

To lead (soldiers) as a general.

plural of genericity

plural of generic / (computing, programming) The use of templates etc. to create generic source code that can be used in many situations.