commander in chief

See also: commander-in-chief

English

Alternative forms

commander-in-chief

Noun

commander in chief (plural commanders in chief)

Supreme commander of the armed forces of an entire country.
- c. 1600, Clement Edmundes, Observations vpon Caesars Comentaries‎, page 175:
  For, [Scipio] being Commaunder in chiefe, ouer an Armie; (Latin original: praeesse autem suo nomine exercitui)

Translations

Supreme commander of the armed forces of an entire country

Chinese:
Mandarin: 總司令 (zh), 总司令 (zh) (zǒngsīlìng)
Dutch: opperbevelhebber (nl) m
Esperanto: ĉefgeneralo
Finnish: puolustusvoimain ylipäällikkö
French: commandant en chef m
Georgian: მთავარსარდალი (mtavarsardali)
German: Oberbefehlshaber (de) m, OB (de) m
Greek: αρχιστράτηγος (el) m (archistrátigos)
Irish: ardcheannasaí m
Japanese: 最高指揮官 (さいこうしきかん, saikō shikikan)

Macedonian: главен команда́нт m (glaven komandánt), врховен команда́нт m (vrhoven komandánt)
Malay: ketua turus m, c (Malaysian form)
Persian: فرمانده کل قوا‎‎ (farmânde-ye kol-le qovâ)
Polish: naczelny wódz m
Portuguese: comandante-em-chefe m, f
Russian: главнокома́ндующий (ru) m (glavnokomándujuščij)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: во̏јсковођа m

Roman: vȍjskovođa (sh) m
Slovene: vrhovni poveljnik m
Swedish: överbefälhavare

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