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com⋅mand⋅er

  [kuh-man-der, -mahn-]
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–noun
1. a person who commands.
2. a person who exercises authority; chief officer; leader.
3. the commissioned officer in command of a military unit.
4. U.S. Navy. an officer ranking below a captain and above a lieutenant commander.
5. a police officer in charge of a precinct or other unit.
6. the chief officer of a commandery in the medieval orders of Knights Hospitalers, Knights Templars, and others.
7. a member of one of the higher classes or ranks in certain modern fraternal orders, as in the Knights Templars.
Origin:
1250–1300; ME < OF comandere, equiv. to comand(er) to command + -ere < L -ātōr- -ator

Related forms:
com⋅mand⋅er⋅ship, noun
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com⋅mand

  [kuh-mand, -mahnd]
–verb (used with object)
1. to direct with specific authority or prerogative; order: The captain commanded his men to attack.
2. to require authoritatively; demand: She commanded silence.
3. to have or exercise authority or control over; be master of; have at one's bidding or disposal: The Pharaoh commanded 10,000 slaves.
4. to deserve and receive (respect, sympathy, attention, etc.): He commands much respect for his attitude.
5. to dominate by reason of location; overlook: The hill commands the sea.
6. to have authority over and responsibility for (a military or naval unit or installation); be in charge of.
–verb (used without object)
7. to issue an order or orders.
8. to be in charge; have authority.
9. to occupy a dominating position; look down upon or over a body of water, region, etc.
–noun
10. the act of commanding or ordering.
11. an order given by one in authority: The colonel gave the command to attack.
12. Military.
a. an order in prescribed words, usually given in a loud voice to troops at close-order drill: The command was “Right shoulder arms!”
b. the order of execution or the second part of any two-part close-order drill command, as face in Right face!
c. (initial capital letter) a principal component of the U.S. Air Force: Strategic Air Command.
d. a body of troops or a station, ship, etc., under a commander.
13. the possession or exercise of controlling authority: a lieutenant in command of a platoon.
14. expertise; mastery: He has a command of French, Russian, and German.
15. British. a royal order.
16. power of dominating a region by reason of location; extent of view or outlook: the command of the valley from the hill.
17. Computers.
a. an electric impulse, signal, or set of signals for initiating an operation in a computer.
b. a character, symbol, or item of information for instructing a computer to perform a specific task.
c. a single instruction.
–adjective
18. of, pertaining to, or for use in the exercise of command: a command car; command post.
19. of or pertaining to a commander: a command decision.
20. ordered by a sovereign, as if by a sovereign, or by the exigencies of a situation: a command performance.
Origin:
1250–1300; (v.) ME coma(u)nden < AF com(m)a(u)nder, OF comander < ML commandāre, equiv. to L com- com- + mandāre to entrust, order (cf. commend ); (n.) late ME comma(u)nde < AF, OF, n. deriv. of the v.

Related forms:
command⋅a⋅ble, adjective

Synonyms:
1. bid, demand, charge, instruct, enjoin. See direct. 3. govern, control, oversee, manage, lead. See rule. 4. exact, compel, require, claim, secure. 10. direction, bidding, injunction, charge, mandate, instruction. 13. ascendancy, sway, domination.

Antonyms:
1, 7. obey.
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com·mand·er   (kə-mān'dər)   
n.  

  1. A person who commands, especially a commanding officer.

    1. Abbr. CDR A commissioned rank in the U.S. Navy or Coast Guard that is above lieutenant commander and below captain.

    2. One who holds this rank.

    3. The chief commissioned officer of a military unit regardless of his or her rank.

  3. An officer in some knightly or fraternal orders.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Word Origin & History

command 
c.1300, from O.Fr. comander "to order, enjoin," from V.L. *commandare, from L. commendare "to recommend" (see commend), alt. by influence of L. mandare "to commit, entrust" (see mandate). Replaced O.E. bebeodan. The noun is attested from 1552. Commandant is 1687, from Fr. Commandment is c.1280; pronounced as four syllables until 17c. "Of þe x commandements ... þe first comondement is þis, O God we ssul honuri" (c.1280).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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