Definition of "field marshal" [field marshal]

• An officer in some European armies, usually ranking just below the commander in chief. (noun)

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• "The troops already in camp at Lemnos, Kitchener decreed, were to remain on that island until the fleet had battered the inner forts into submission; thereupon, the field marshal conceded, it might be necessary to put a few men ashore at the Bulair neck of Gallipoli to prevent supplies from reaching isolated Turkish troops on the peninsula."
• "Lizbeth thought he looked like a field marshal in a movie, right in the moment when he knew he was out-manned, under-supplied, and moving closer to a disastrous battle."
• ""Gratefulness for that, Shatenka," wheezed the field marshal in passable Massood."