generalissimo
noun
gen·er·a·lis·si·mo
ˌje-nə-rə-ˈli-sə-ˌmō 
ˌjen-rə-
plural generalissimos
: the chief commander of an army
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Cookware This is something for the big-splashy-meal cook in your life—the king of the standing rib roast, the empress of the whole pig on a spit, the generalissimo of the hundred-person clam bake.
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Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2024
The Nationalist generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek tended to see trials against Japanese war criminals as a distraction from his struggle against the Communists.
—Ian Buruma, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023
Between then and now, a blink of an eye, that same corporal became a generalissimo, a writer, and an editor supremo.
—David Remnick, The New Yorker, 17 Sep. 2020
Like generalissimo, Allen is given to strong pronouncements.
—Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Oct. 2019
Her romance with Castro and another with the Venezuelan generalissimo Marcos Pérez Jiménez, who fathered her daughter, both appear to have been confirmed.
—Sam Roberts, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2019
After a few years of meandering, though, Oliver Cromwell, a member of parliament turned generalissimo led a coup d’état.
—Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 23 Apr. 2018
Many statues of the generalissimo were removed; about 100 of them are now dotted round a park next to one of Chiang’s villas in Cihu district in northern Taiwan, where his body lies in a black marble sarcophagus.
—The Economist, 5 Oct. 2017
Many statues of the generalissimo were removed
—The Economist, 5 Oct. 2017
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Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2024
The Nationalist generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek tended to see trials against Japanese war criminals as a distraction from his struggle against the Communists.
—Ian Buruma, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023
Between then and now, a blink of an eye, that same corporal became a generalissimo, a writer, and an editor supremo.
—David Remnick, The New Yorker, 17 Sep. 2020
Like generalissimo, Allen is given to strong pronouncements.
—Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Oct. 2019
Her romance with Castro and another with the Venezuelan generalissimo Marcos Pérez Jiménez, who fathered her daughter, both appear to have been confirmed.
—Sam Roberts, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2019
After a few years of meandering, though, Oliver Cromwell, a member of parliament turned generalissimo led a coup d’état.
—Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 23 Apr. 2018
Many statues of the generalissimo were removed; about 100 of them are now dotted round a park next to one of Chiang’s villas in Cihu district in northern Taiwan, where his body lies in a black marble sarcophagus.
—The Economist, 5 Oct. 2017
Many statues of the generalissimo were removed
—The Economist, 5 Oct. 2017
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generalissimo
noun
gen·er·a·lis·si·mo
ˌjen-(ə-)rə-ˈlis-ə-ˌmō
plural generalissimos
: the commander in chief of an army
Etymology
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