Commodore
['kɒmədɔː] or ['kɑmə'dɔr]
Definition
(noun.) a commissioned naval officer who ranks above a captain and below a rear admiral; the lowest grade of admiral.
Checked by Ernest--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) An officer who ranks next above a captain; sometimes, by courtesy, the senior captain of a squadron. The rank of commodore corresponds with that of brigadier general in the army.
(n.) A captain commanding a squadron, or a division of a fleet, or having the temporary rank of rear admiral.
(n.) A title given by courtesy to the senior captain of a line of merchant vessels, and also to the chief officer of a yachting or rowing club.
(n.) A familiar for the flagship, or for the principal vessel of a squadron or fleet.
Editor: Spence
Definition
n. in the royal navy a rank intermediate between an admiral and a captain: the leading ship in a fleet of merchantmen: the president of a yacht-club also his vessel at a regatta.
Checker: Willa
Examples
- Then in 1853 came four American warships under Commodore Perry, and refused to be driven away. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It had bright brass bands all over, the woodwork beautifully painted, and everything highly polished, which was the custom up to the time old Commodore Vanderbilt stopped it on his roads. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- This coherent speech was interrupted by the entrance of the Rochester coachman, to announce that 'the Commodore' was on the point of starting. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
Typist: Preston