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Definition of Field marshal
1. Noun. An officer holding the highest rank in the army.
Generic synonyms: Marshal, Marshall
Specialized synonyms: Hindenburg, Paul Ludwig Von Beneckendorff Und Von Hindenburg, Paul Von Hindenburg, Joffre, Joseph Jacques Cesaire Joffre, First Earl Kitchener Of Khartoum, Herbert Kitchener, Horatio Herbert Kitchener, Kitchener, Kutuzov, Mikhail Ilarionovich Kutuzov, Prince Of Smolensk, Desert Fox, Erwin Rommel, Rommel, Karl Rudolf Gerd Von Rundstedt, Rundstedt, Von Rundstedt, Archibald Percival Wavell, First Earl Wavell, Wavell
Definition of Field marshal
1. Noun. (military ranks) In certain nations the highest military rank, ranking below only the commander in chief; now essentially disused. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Field Marshal
Literary usage of Field marshal
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1897)
"OF all books ever written about India, none has been so extensively read in
England as ' Forty-one Years in India,' by Field-Marshal Lord Roberts. ..."
2. The Literary Digest History of the World War: Compiled from Original and (1920)
"Haesler never read a book, except the manual, and his favorite relaxation was
the society of horses.13 SIR DOUGLAS HAIG, BRITISH FIELD-MARSHAL AND COMMANDER ..."
3. The Gentleman's Magazine (1860)
"He married first, in 1829, Lady Agnes Paget, fifth daughter of the late Field-Marshal
the Marquis of Anglesey, who died in 1845; and secondly, in March, ..."
4. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1847)
"... for the collections of this country the acknowledged riches so strangely
brought to light. ART. VII.— Official and other Dispatches of Field-Marshal the ..."
5. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1874)
"Your most humble obedient Servant, (Signed) FIELD-MARSHAL GRAJ VON PLUNDER. to
... I have the honour to be, Sir, From FIELD-MARSHAL GRAF VON PLUNDER, $'c-, ..."
6. Memoirs of the History of France During the Reign of Napoleon by Napoleon, Gaspard Gourgaud, Charles Jean Tristan Montholon (1824)
"On Napoleon's manoeuvres against Field-Marshal Beaulieu.—III. On Field-Marshal
Wurmser.—IV. On Napoleon's manoeuvres against Field. Marshal Wurmser. ..."
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