Definition of Field marshal

1. Noun. An officer holding the highest rank in the army.


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

field hospital
field hospitals
field house
field hut
field identification
field intensity
field ion microscope
field judge
field lens
field line
field lines
field lupine
field magnet
field maple
field marigold
field marshal (current term)
field marshals
field mice
field mint
field mouse
field mouse-ear
field mushroom
field mustard
field of battle
field of consciousness
field of fire
field of fixation
field of force
field of honor
field of operation

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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