commodore
see also: Commodore
Pronunciation
Commodore
Proper noun
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see also: Commodore
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈkɑmədɔɹ/
commodore (plural commodores)
- (military, nautical) A naval officer holding a rank between captain and rear admiral.
- (nautical) A (temporary) commander over a collection of ships who is not an admiral.
- 1851 , Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, chapter 1: (...)—no, I never go as a passenger; nor, though I am something of a salt, do I ever go to sea as a Commodore, or a Captain, or a Cook.
- (nautical) The leading ship in a fleet of merchantmen.
- (nautical) The president of a yacht club.
- (nautical) A yacht-club president's vessel in a regatta.
- (US, military, nautical) A commodore admiral.
- (US, military, nautical) A rear admiral (lower half).
- (entomology) Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the Asian genus Parasarpa.
- (non-flag naval rank) senior captain, fleet captain, flag captain
- (nautical) senior captain, fleet captain, flag captain, shipmaster senior grade
- (flag naval rank) CDRE, COMO (abbreviation)
- (naval rank) Cmdre, Cmdre. (abbreviation)
- French: commodore
- German: Kommodore, Flottillenadmiral
- Italian: commodoro
- Portuguese: comodoro
- Russian: коммодо́р
- Spanish: comodoro
Commodore
Proper noun
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