colonel general
Noun
Meaning
colonel general (plural colonel generals)
(military) A general officer's rank in some nations' militaries, corresponding to the rank of either a lieutenant general or full general in the United States rank system.
Examples
Colonel General Franz Halder, the chief of the German General Staff, and Walther von Brauschitsch, the Army commander in chief, were aghast and tried to work around the order, but to no avail.
Colonel General Viktor Bondarev said fighter jets could be hijacked in countries neighbouring Syria and used to attack Russian forces.
Russian Colonel General Mikhail Mizintsev called the Soviet Union's efforts to rebuild after World War II "unparalleled."