[
UK
/kˈɒmɑːndˌænt/
]
[ US /ˌkɑmənˈdɑnt/ ]
[ US /ˌkɑmənˈdɑnt/ ]
NOUN
- an officer in command of a military unit
How To Use commandant In A Sentence
- Authorized UN datatrace reveals that signal's origin to be the Commandant's palace in Novokuznetsk, Siberia. Mother Of Storms
- WORDS ACCENTED ON THE LAST SYLLABLE: address _address'_ adept _adept'_ adult _adult'_ ally _ally'_ commandant _commandänt '(ä as in arm) _ contour _contour'_ dessert _dessert'_ dilate _dilate'_ excise _eksiz'_ finance _finance'_ grimace _grimace'_ importune _importune'_ occult _occult'_ pretence _pretence'_ research _research'_ robust _robust'_ romance _romance'_ tirade _tirade'_ Practical Grammar and Composition
- After an initial set of interviews, they were then vetted and approved by the War College's Commandant.
- Promoted to brigadier general in 1907, he then became commandant of the Staff College.
- The group commandant, Colonel S.Kumar, visited the spot on Saturday and witnessed the cadets fly with enthusiasm.
- The Stung Arm fearing a discovery, notwithstanding her utmost precaution, and the secrecy she enjoined, repaired to the temple, and pulled some rods out of the fatal bundle: her design was to hasten or forward the term prefixed, to the end that such Frenchmen as escaped the massacre, might apprize their countrymen, many of whom had informed the Commandant; who clapt seven of them in irons, treating them as cowards on that account. History of Louisisana Or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing
- Jon Voight, as the camp commandant, or second in command under the mean spirited Warden, overacts to a point of absurdity.
- He was placed on the commandant's list on completing the Armor Officer Basic Course in 1997.
- Before he came to us De Malet was military commandant at Oran, and it was there that he did one of his best strokes -- outgeneralling a camel-driver from Tangier, one of those thorough-paced Moorish rascals of whom the saying goes, 'Two Maltese to a Jew, and three Jews to a Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878
- All this would involve no end of worry for the quartermaster, who even under the most favorable circumstances is sure to be the least appreciated and most abused officer under the commandant himself, and that worthy was simply agasp with relief and joy when he heard Mr. Hayne's astonishing announcement that he would take the quarters out on "Prairie Avenue. The Deserter