as in commander
one in official command especially of a military force or base
the commandant of a naval district
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Recent Examples of commandant
One of Trump’s earliest actions was relieving the commandant of the Coast Guard.
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Varad Mehta, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 7 Mar. 2025
There quickly followed a romance and an engagement between an imperial court official, Count Nikolai Petrovich Rezanov, who held a tsarist monopoly on trade along the Pacific Northwest, and Conchita Arguello, daughter of the San Francisco Presidio’s commandant.
—Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2025
The house of Rudolf Höss, the Auschwitz camp’s wartime commandant.
—Andrew Higgins, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2025
Sefton insists on his innocence, however, and attempts to find the real informant while turning the tables on the camp’s officious commandant (Otto Preminger).
—Keith Phipps, Vulture, 22 Nov. 2024
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Varad Mehta, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 7 Mar. 2025
There quickly followed a romance and an engagement between an imperial court official, Count Nikolai Petrovich Rezanov, who held a tsarist monopoly on trade along the Pacific Northwest, and Conchita Arguello, daughter of the San Francisco Presidio’s commandant.
—Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2025
The house of Rudolf Höss, the Auschwitz camp’s wartime commandant.
—Andrew Higgins, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2025
Sefton insists on his innocence, however, and attempts to find the real informant while turning the tables on the camp’s officious commandant (Otto Preminger).
—Keith Phipps, Vulture, 22 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for commandant
commander
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Melvin Morris, an African American soldier, retrieved under fire at Chi Lang, Vietnam, the body of another team commander on Sept. 17, 1969.—
Richard J. Gonzales,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
24 May 2025
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Schuster, a 17-year veteran, has been the department’s commander since 2020.—
Clifford Ward,
Chicago Tribune,
23 May 2025
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“Commandant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/commandant. Accessed 1 Jun. 2025.
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