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com⋅mand⋅er

[kuh-man-der, -mahn-]

–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)

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.
An officer in some knightly or fraternal orders.

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.

Language Translation for : commander

Spanish: comandante,

German: der Kommandant,

Japanese: 指揮者

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