Word Meanings - CAPTAIN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

, LL. capitaneus, capitanus, fr. L. 1. A head, or chief officer; as: The military officer who commands a company, troop, or battery, or who has the rank entitling him to do so though he may be employed on other service. An officer in the United

Additional info about word: CAPTAIN

, LL. capitaneus, capitanus, fr. L. 1. A head, or chief officer; as: The military officer who commands a company, troop, or battery, or who has the rank entitling him to do so though he may be employed on other service. An officer in the United States navy, next above a commander and below a commodore, and ranking with a colonel in the ermy. By courtesy, an officer actually commanding a vessel, although not having the rank of captain. The master or commanding officer of a merchant vessel. One in charge of a portion of a ship's company; as, a captain of a top, captain of a gun, etc. The foreman of a body of workmen. A person having authority over others acting in concert; as, the captain of a boat's crew; the captain of a football team. A trainband captain eke was he. Cowper. The Rhodian captain, relying on . . . the lightness of his vessel, passed, in open day, through all the guards. Arbuthnot. 2. A military leader; a warrior. Foremost captain of his time. Tennyson. Captain general. The commander in chief of an army or armies, or of the militia. The Spanish governor of Cuba and its dependent islands. -- Captain lieutenant, a lieutenant with the rank and duties of captain but with a lieutenant's pay, -- as in the first company of an English regiment.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CAPTAIN)

• Chieftain
• Captain
• general
• chief
• commander
• head man
• leader

Related words: (words related to CAPTAIN)

• CHIEFLESS
  Without a chief or leader.
• GENERALIZED
  Comprising structural characters which are separated in more specialized forms; synthetic; as, a generalized type.
• GENERALIZABLE
  Capable of being generalized, or reduced to a general form of statement, or brought under a general rule. Extreme cases are . . . not generalizable. Coleridge
• CHIEFEST
  First or foremost; chief; principal. "Our chiefest courtier." Shak. The chiefest among ten thousand. Canticles v. 10.
• GENERALTY
  Generality. Sir M. Hale.
• CAPTAINRY
  Power, or command, over a certain district; chieftainship.
• GENERALITY
  1. The state of being general; the quality of including species or particulars. Hooker. 2. That which is general; that which lacks specificalness, practicalness, or application; a general or vague statement or phrase. Let us descend from
• CHIEF JUSTICE
  The presiding justice, or principal judge, of a court. Lord Chief Justice of England, The presiding judge of the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice. The highest judicial officer of the realm is the Lord High Chancellor. -- Chief
• GENERALISSIMO
  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.
• CHIEF HARE
  A small rodent inhabiting the summits of the Rocky Mountains; -- also called crying hare, calling hare, cony, American pika, and little chief hare. Note: It is not a true hare or rabbit, but belongs to the curious family Lagomyidæ.
• CAPTAIN
  , LL. capitaneus, capitanus, fr. L. 1. A head, or chief officer; as: The military officer who commands a company, troop, or battery, or who has the rank entitling him to do so though he may be employed on other service. An officer in the United
• COMMANDER
  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
• GENERALLY
  1. In general; commonly; extensively, though not universally; most frequently. 2. In a general way, or in general relation; in the main; upon the whole; comprehensively. Generally speaking, they live very quietly. Addison. 3. Collectively; as a
• GENERALIZE
  1. To bring under a genus or under genera; to view in relation to a genus or to genera. Copernicus generalized the celestial motions by merely referring them to the moon's motion. Newton generalized them still more by referring this last to the
• CHIEFTAINCY; CHIEFTAINSHIP
  The rank, dignity, or office of a chieftain.
• GENERALIZATION
  1. The act or process of generalizing; the act of bringing individuals or particulars under a genus or class; deduction of a general principle from particulars. Generalization is only the apprehension of the one in the many. Sir W. Hamilton. 2.
• CHIEF-JUSTICESHIP
  The office of chief justice. Jay selected the chief-justiceship as most in accordance with his tastes. The Century.
• GENERAL
  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. Note: In the United States the office
• GENERALIA
  Generalities; general terms. J. S. Mill.
• GENERALIZER
  One who takes general or comprehensive views. Tyndall.
• MAJOR GENERAL
  . An officer of the army holding a rank next above that of brigadier general and next below that of lieutenant general, and who usually commands a division or a corps.
• KERCHIEF
  couvrechef, F. couvrechef, a head covering, fr. couvrir to cover + 1. A square of fine linen worn by women as a covering for the head; hence, anything similar in form or material, worn for ornament on other parts of the person; -- mostly used in
• RINGLEADER
  1. The leader of a circle of dancers; hence, the leader of a number of persons acting together; the leader of a herd of animals. A primacy of order, such an one as the ringleader hath in a dance. Barrow. 2. Opprobriously, a leader of a body of
• MISCHIEF
  + chief end, head, F. chef chief. See Minus, and 1. Harm; damage; esp., disarrangement of order; trouble or vexation caused by human agency or by some living being, intentionally or not; often, calamity, mishap; trivial evil caused by
• ENKERCHIEFED
  Bound with a kerchief; draped; hooded; covered. Milton. That soft, enkerchiefed hair. M. Arnold.
• PLEADER
  One who draws up or forms pleas; the draughtsman of pleas or pleadings in the widest sense; as, a special pleader. (more info) 1. One who pleads; one who argues for or against; an advotate. So fair a pleader any cause may gain. Dryden.
• POSTMASTER-GENERAL
  The chief officer of the post-office department of a government. In the United States the postmaster-general is a member of the cabinet.
• FAIR-LEADER
  A block, or ring, serving as a guide for the running rigging or for any rope.
• NECKERCHIEF
  A kerchief for the neck; -- called also neck handkerchief.
• SEA CAPTAIN
  The captain of a vessel that sails upon the sea.
• MISCHIEFFUL
  Mischievous. Foote.
• MISCHIEFABLE
  Mischievous. Lydgate.
• BRIGADIER GENERAL
  An officer in rank next above a colonel, and below a major general. He commands a brigade, and is sometimes called, by a shortening of his title, simple a brigadier.