Definition of commander

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Commander (n.) The chief officer of a commandery.

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Tycoon :: Tycoon (n.) The title by which the shogun, or former commander in chief of the Japanese army, was known to foreigners..
Partisan :: Partisan (n.) The commander of a body of detached light troops engaged in making forays and harassing an enemy.
Master :: Master (n.) The commander of a merchant vessel; -- usually called captain. Also, a commissioned officer in the navy ranking next above ensign and below lieutenant; formerly, an officer on a man-of-war who had immediate charge, under the commander, of sailing the vessel..
Commandery :: Commandery (n.) The office or rank of a commander.
Heretog :: Heretog (n.) The leader or commander of an army; also, a marshal..
Convention :: Convention (v. i.) An agreement or contract less formal than, or preliminary to, a treaty; an informal compact, as between commanders of armies in respect to suspension of hostilities, or between states; also, a formal agreement between governments or sovereign powers; as, a postal convention between two governments..
Imperator :: Imperator (n.) A commander; a leader; an emperor; -- originally an appellation of honor by which Roman soldiers saluted their general after an important victory. Subsequently the title was conferred as a recognition of great military achievements by the senate, whence it carried wiht it some special privileges. After the downfall of the Republic it was assumed by Augustus and his successors, and came to have the meaning now attached to the word emperor..
Unfortunate :: Unfortunate (a.) Not fortunate; unsuccessful; not prosperous; unlucky; attended with misfortune; unhappy; as, an unfortunate adventure; an unfortunate man; an unfortunate commander; unfortunate business..
Rash :: Rash (superl.) Esp., overhasty in counsel or action; precipitate; resolving or entering on a project or measure without due deliberation and caution; opposed to prudent; said of persons; as, a rash statesman or commander..
Commander :: Commander (n.) A chief; one who has supreme authority; a leader; the chief officer of an army, or of any division of it..
Commandery :: Commandery (n.) A district or a manor with lands and tenements appertaining thereto, under the control of a member of an order of knights who was called a commander; -- called also a preceptory..
Generalissimo :: Generalissimo (a.) The chief commander of an army; especially, the commander in chief of an army consisting of two or more grand divisions under separate commanders; -- a title used in most foreign countries..
General :: General (a.) One of the chief military officers of a government or country; the commander of an army, of a body of men not less than a brigade. In European armies, the highest military rank next below field marshal..
Privateer :: Privateer (n.) The commander of a privateer.
Commandership :: Commandership (n.) The office of a commander.
Chiliarch :: Chiliarch (n.) The commander or chief of a thousand men.
Warder :: Warder (n.) A truncheon or staff carried by a king or a commander in chief, and used in signaling his will..
Seraskier :: Seraskier (n.) A general or commander of land forces in the Turkish empire; especially, the commander-in-chief of minister of war..
Nurse :: Nurse (n.) A lieutenant or first officer, who is the real commander when the captain is unfit for his place..
Captainship :: Captainship (n.) The condition, rank, post, or authority of a captain or chief commander..
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