commandant

IPA: kɑmʌndˈɑnt

(military) A commanding officer, usually of a specific force or division.
(South Africa, military, historical) Title for the officer in charge of a commando or district.

Examples of "commandant" in Sentences

Obviously the commandant is concerned with the good of the service.
The French term commandant answers to an English major, and he will therefore in future be termed Major Tempe.
The commandant was a man of medium size, fairly handsome in person and features, and apparently about twenty-eight years of age.
He was twenty-one then, already known as commandant material with a great career ahead of him, marriage ahead, a year or so ahead …
He was twenty-one then, already known as commandant material with a great career ahead of him, marriage ahead, a year or so ahead ...
The commandant was a tall, doddery, antediluvian Prussian colonel, with long grey moustaches, the very image of the Monkey Brand advertisement, only perhaps not quite so good looking.
Gary DuMornay, the principal of Kappa 6 - who is known as the "commandant" at this military-style middle school - said that the grant money would mainly be used to improve the students' reading ability.
Within the wide area of responsibility (termed the commandant's area), the OPFOR creates specific sectors extending 100 km along a march route, with several traffic control posts deployed at the aforementioned critical locations.