comandante
Americannoun
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comandantes,
plural
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comandanti
plural
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of comandante
< Spanish, Italian
Example Sentences
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Mildred Barreto, a 66-year-old cleaner, still calls him "comandante," meaning commander.
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
Frank López, a retired teacher, speaks fondly of that early era under the comandante.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 26, 2016
“While a controversial figure,” Justin Trudeau said, “both Mr. Castro’s supporters and detractors recognized his tremendous dedication and love for the Cuban people who had a deep and lasting affection for ‘el comandante.’
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 26, 2016
Then a burst of floodlights illuminated him: William Alexander Morgan, the great Yankee comandante.
From Slate ● Apr. 19, 2014
Through the window, I could see she had fallen asleep on her recliner while watching her favorite telenovela, El comandante y la duquesa.
From "The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora" by Pablo Cartaya
And each time the boot came down, rumors flew that the moderate and hard-line comandantes were in deep disagreement.
From Time Magazine Archive
Schafik Jorge Handal, head of the Salvadoran Communist Party and one of the F.M.L.N.'s top five comandantes, agrees.
From Time Magazine Archive
When they learned that Daniel Ortega's younger brother, one of the ruling Sandinista comandantes for ten years, would temporarily head the armed forces, two able men Chamorro had tapped as Cabinet Ministers backed out.
From Time Magazine Archive
The past ten years have savaged the country's civilians, not its comandantes.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Spanish comandantes in charge of the province seem to have remained only about two years each.
From The Bontoc Igorot by Albert Ernest Jenks
Two other comandanti in each army stood on the ground.
From Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa With Sixteen Illustrations In Colour By William Parkinson And Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition by Edward Hutton
Four comandanti or captains on each side entered the battle itself.
From Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa With Sixteen Illustrations In Colour By William Parkinson And Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition by Edward Hutton
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