commander in chief

See also: commander-in-chief

English

Alternative forms

• commander-in-chief

Noun

commander in chief (plural commanders in chief)

2. Supreme commander of the armed forces of an entire country.
   • c. 1600, Clement Edmundes, Observations vpon Caesars Comentaries‎^[1], page 175:

     For, [Scipio] being Commaunder in chiefe, ouer an Armie; (Latin original: praeesse autem suo nomine exercitui)

   • 1787, Philadelphia Convention, “Article II, Section 2”, in Constitution of the United States of America‎^[2], Philadelphia:

     The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States; he may require the Opinion, in writing, of the principal Officer in each of the executive Departments, upon any Subject relating to the Duties of their respective Offices, and he shall have Power to Grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment.

Related terms

• chain of command
• chief of staff

Translations

supreme commander of the armed forces of an entire country

• Albanian: komandant i përgjithshëm m
• Arabic: رَئِيس أَرْكَان m (raʔīs ʔarkān)
• Armenian: գլխավոր հրամանատար (hy) (glxavor hramanatar)
• Azerbaijani: ali baş komandan, baş komandan
• Belarusian: галоўнакама́ндуючы m (haloŭnakamándujučy)
• Bulgarian: главнокома́ндващ m (glavnokomándvašt)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 總司令 / 总司令 (zh) (zǒngsīlìng)

• Czech: vrchní velitel m
• Danish: øverstkommanderende, øverstbefalende
• Dutch: opperbevelhebber (nl) m
• Esperanto: ĉefgeneralo
• Estonian: ülemjuhataja
• Faroese: hægstráðandi m
• Finnish: puolustusvoimain ylipäällikkö
• French: commandant en chef (fr) m
• Georgian: მთავარსარდალი (mtavarsardali)
• German: Oberbefehlshaber (de) m, OB (de) m
• Greek: αρχιστράτηγος (el) m (archistrátigos)
• Hebrew: רָמַטְכָּ"ל m (ramatkál), שַׂר צָבָא (he) m (sar tzavá)
• Hindi: प्रधान सेनापति m (pradhān senāpati), सेनापति (hi) m (senāpati), कमांडर इन चीफ़ m (kamāṇḍar in cīf)
• Hungarian: főparancsnok (hu)
• Indonesian: panglima tertinggi (id)
• Irish: ardcheannasaí m
• Italian: comandante in capo m, comandate supremo m
• Japanese: 最高指揮官 (さいこうしきかん, saikō shikikan), 総司令官 (そうしれいかん, sōshireikan)
• Kazakh: жоғарғы бас қолбасшы (joğarğy bas qolbasşy), бас қолбасшы (bas qolbasşy)
• Korean: 총사령관(總司令官) (chongsaryeonggwan)
• Kyrgyz: башкы колбашчы (başkı kolbaşcı), башкы командачы (başkı komandacı)
• Latvian: virspavēlnieks m
• Macedonian: главен команда́нт m (glaven komandánt), врховен команда́нт m (vrhoven komandánt)
• Malay: ketua turus (Malaysian form)
• Manx: ard-anneyder m
• Mari:

  Eastern Mari: главнокомандующий (glavnokomandujuŝij)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: øverstkommanderende

• Ottoman Turkish: سرعسكر (serʼasker)
• Persian: فرمانده کل قوا (farmânde-ye kol-e qovâ), بزرگ‌ارتشتاران (bozorg-arteštârân)
• Polish: naczelny wódz m, głównodowodzący m
• Portuguese: comandante em chefe m or f
• Romanian: comandant suprem (ro) m, comandant-șef m
• Russian: главнокома́ндующий (ru) m (glavnokomándujuščij)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: во̏јсковођа m

  Roman: vȍjskovođa (sh) m

• Slovak: vrchný veliteľ m
• Slovene: vrhovni poveljnik m
• Spanish: comandante en jefe m or f
• Swedish: överbefälhavare (sv) c
• Tajik: сарфармондеҳ (sarfarmondeh)
• Thai: ผู้บัญชาการทหาร (pûu-ban-chaa-gaan-tá-hǎan)
• Turkish: başkomutan (tr); serasker (tr) (historical)
• Ukrainian: головнокома́ндувач m (holovnokománduvač)
• Urdu: کَمانْڈر اِن چِیف m (kamānḍar in cīf)
• Uyghur: باش قوماندان (bash qomandan)
• Uzbek: bosh qoʻmondon, oliy bosh qoʻmondon
• Vietnamese: tổng tư lệnh (vi)

See also

• shogun
• generalissimo