commodore

[ kom-uh-dawr, -dohr ]

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noun

Navy. a grade of flag officer next in rank below a rear admiral.
British Navy. an officer in temporary command of a squadron, sometimes over a captain on the same ship.
Navy. the senior captain when two or more ships of war are cruising in company.
(in the U.S. Navy and Merchant Marine) the officer in command of a convoy.
the senior captain of a line of merchant vessels.
the president or head of a yacht club or boat club.

commodore

/ ˈkɒməˌdɔː /

1685–95; earlier commandore, perhaps < Dutch komandeur < French commandeur commander

C17: probably from Dutch commandeur, from French, from Old French commander to command

A motley crew of former sailors led by Commodore Joshua Barney mounted the only real resistance to the British.

Examine photographs of Andrew Carnegie, J. P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Mellon, and Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt.

Air commodore Houston was responding to results from the Australian ship Ocean Shield.

He joined the local Cabrillo Beach Yacht Club there and by 1977 had reached the membership rank of commodore.

Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard—“the Commodore”—had a passion for all things naval.

Quite a good lot of bullets were plopping into the water, so the Commodore ordered the Colne to lie further out.

The Commodore has offered me a passage in her, and has written to that purpose; but I am in no state to embark for a long voyage.

British commodore Byron sailed from the Downs in the Dolphin, on his voyage round the world.

The Commodore means to go thither himself on the business, and I have no doubt all will be well and reasonably settled.

The American expedition under commodore Perry arrived at Japan.

April 19, 2024tortuous

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