generalissimo

IPA: dʒɛnɛrʌɫˈɪsɪmoʊ

(military) A supreme commander of the armed forces of a country, especially one who is also a political leader.

Examples of "generalissimo" in Sentences

The generalissimo was a man of few, usually cryptic, words.
He called the generalissimo's brother-in-law el cuñadísimo.
He was also known to refer to the generalissimo as “a lily-livered Chink” and a “slant-eyed snake.”
The president of this council is the Minister of War; the vice president is known as the generalissimo of the French army.
Mr. Hamm mostly acted as Tina Fey's straight man, but, he did have one great reaction to her, when she called herself the "generalissimo": "I don't even know what that means!"
The generalissimo was a brutal, corrupt, and ineffective commander who wanted the Americans to fight his war with the Japanese while he husbanded his army to battle Mao’s communists.
Driven out of the city by the Hakka General the previous year, Sun had been allowed to take back the title of generalissimo by two other warlords: General Yang of the Army of Yunnan and General Liu of the Army of Kwangsi, both provinces lying west of Canton’s province of Kwangtung.
Shogun is more accurately - "generalissimo" or better understood as "Military Dictator", The most famous probably being Tokugawa Ieyasu, who found the Tokugawa Shogunate (c. 1603-1868), a period a great peace, stability and prosperity in Japanese History, ending with the Meiji Restoration.