Definition of Commander. Meaning of Commander. Synonyms of Commander

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Definition of Commander

Commander
Commander Com*mand"er, n. [Cf. F. commandeur. Cf. Commodore, Commender.] 1. A chief; one who has supreme authority; a leader; the chief officer of an army, or of any division of it. A leader and commander to the people. --Is. lv. 4. 2. (Navy) An officer who ranks next below a captain, -- ranking with a lieutenant colonel in the army. 3. The chief officer of a commandery. 4. A heavy beetle or wooden mallet, used in paving, in sail lofts, etc. Commander in chief, the military title of the officer who has supreme command of the land or naval forces or the united forces of a nation or state; a generalissimo. The President is commander in chief of the army and navy of the United States. Syn: See Chief.

Meaning of Commander from wikipedia

- Commander is a common Naval officer rank. Commander is also used as a rank or title in other formal organizations, including several police forces. In...
- A commander-in-chief or supreme commander is the person who exercises supreme command and control over an armed forces or a military branch. As a technical...
- Empire KBE or DBE - Knight Commander or Dame Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire CBE - Commander of the Most Excellent Order...
- Lieutenant commander (also hyphenated lieutenant-commander and abbreviated Lt Cdr, LtCdr. or LCDR) is a commissioned officer rank in many navies. The...
- Total Commander (formerly Windows Commander) is an orthodox file manager for Windows, Windows Phone, Windows Mobile/Windows CE and Android, developed...
- GNU Midnight Commander (also known as mc, the command used to start it, and as mouseless commander in older versions) is a free cross-platform orthodox...
- Duck Commander is both the brand of a duck call and the name of the company in West Monroe, Louisiana, United States. The company manufactures these calls...
- Master and Commander is a nautical historical novel by the English author Patrick O'Brian, first published in 1969 in the US and 1970 in UK. The book...
- The Colt Commander is a single-action, semi-automatic, magazine-fed, and recoil-operated handgun based on the John M. Browning designed M1911. It was...
- Commander (Italian: Commendatore, French: Commandeur, German: Komtur, Spanish: Comandante, Portuguese: Comendador), or Knight Commander, is a title of...
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