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Definition of "generalship" []

  • The rank, office, or tenure of a general. (noun)
  • Leadership or skill in the conduct of a war. (noun)
  • Skillful management or leadership. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "generalship" in a sentence
  • ""For which I think him," Balastro, as if the generalship were his."
  • "Bothwell had never lost a battle, and his generalship was the foremost in the land."
  • "Now, in these years of changing fortune, when the King himself experienced such bitter vicissitudes of the fortune of war, his generalship was the astonishment of all the armies of Europe."