Definition of commander

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Commander (n.) An officer who ranks next below a captain, -- ranking with a lieutenant colonel in the army..

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Seraskier :: Seraskier (n.) A general or commander of land forces in the Turkish empire; especially, the commander-in-chief of minister of war..
Knight Templar :: Knight Templar () See Commandery, n., 3, and also Templar, n., 1 and 3..
Chiliarch :: Chiliarch (n.) The commander or chief of a thousand men.
Commanderies :: Commanderies (pl. ) of Commander.
Captain :: Captain (n.) An officer in the United States navy, next above a commander and below a commodore, and ranking with a colonel in the army..
Commander :: Commander (n.) A chief; one who has supreme authority; a leader; the chief officer of an army, or of any division of it..
Apprise :: Apprise (v. t.) To give notice, verbal or written; to inform; -- followed by of; as, we will apprise the general of an intended attack; he apprised the commander of what he had done..
Strategy :: Strategus (n.) The leader or commander of an army; a general.
Prefect :: Prefect (n.) A Roman officer who controlled or superintended a particular command, charge, department, etc.; as, the prefect of the aqueducts; the prefect of a camp, of a fleet, of the city guard, of provisions; the pretorian prefect, who was commander of the troops guarding the emperor's person..
Commandership :: Commandership (n.) The office of a commander.
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..
Alcayde :: Alcayde (n.) A commander of a castle or fortress among the Spaniards, Portuguese, and Moors..
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..
Conductor :: Conductor (n.) One who, or that which, conducts; a leader; a commander; a guide; a manager; a director..
Temerity :: Temerity (n.) Unreasonable contempt of danger; extreme venturesomeness; rashness; as, the temerity of a commander in war..
Navarch :: Navarch (n.) The commander of a fleet.
Ovation :: Ovation (n.) A lesser kind of triumph allowed to a commander for an easy, bloodless victory, or a victory over slaves..
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..
Warder :: Warder (n.) A truncheon or staff carried by a king or a commander in chief, and used in signaling his will..
Proconsul :: Proconsul (n.) An officer who discharged the duties of a consul without being himself consul; a governor of, or a military commander in, a province. He was usually one who had previously been consul..
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