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- Commander - n. - A chief; one who has supreme authority; a leader; the chief officer of an army, or of any division of it.
- Commander - n. - An officer who ranks next below a captain, -- ranking with a lieutenant colonel in the army.
- Commander - n. - The chief officer of a commandery.
- Commander - n. - A heavy beetle or wooden mallet, used in paving, in sail lofts, etc.
- Commanderies - pl. - of Commandery
- Commandership - n. - The office of a commander.
- Commandery - n. - The office or rank of a commander.
- Commandery - n. - A district or a manor with lands and tenements appertaining thereto, under the control of a member of an order of knights who was called a commander; -- called also a preceptory.
- Commandery - n. - An assembly or lodge of Knights Templars (so called) among the Freemasons.
- Commandery - n. - A district under the administration of a military commander or governor.
- Master - n. - The commander of a merchant vessel; -- usually called captain. Also, a commissioned officer in the navy ranking next above ensign and below lieutenant; formerly, an officer on a man-of-war who had immediate charge, under the commander, of sailing the vessel.
- Apprise - v. t. - To give notice, verbal or written; to inform; -- followed by of; as, we will apprise the general of an intended attack; he apprised the commander of what he had done.
- Shipmaster - n. - The captain, master, or commander of a ship.
- General - a. - 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.
- Return - n. - An official account, report, or statement, rendered to the commander or other superior officer; as, the return of men fit for duty; the return of the number of the sick; the return of provisions, etc.
- Warder - n. - A truncheon or staff carried by a king or a commander in chief, and used in signaling his will.
- Chiliarch - n. - The commander or chief of a thousand men.
- Post-captain - n. - A captain of a war vessel whose name appeared, or was "posted," in the seniority list of the British navy, as distinguished from a commander whose name was not so posted. The term was also used in the United States navy; but no such commission as post-captain was ever recognized in either service, and the term has fallen into disuse.
- Proconsul - n. - An officer who discharged the duties of a consul without being himself consul; a governor of, or a military commander in, a province. He was usually one who had previously been consul.
- Strategus - n. - The leader or commander of an army; a general.
- Staff - n. - An establishment of officers in various departments attached to an army, to a section of an army, or to the commander of an army. The general's staff consists of those officers about his person who are employed in carrying his commands into execution. See Etat Major.
- Temerity - n. - Unreasonable contempt of danger; extreme venturesomeness; rashness; as, the temerity of a commander in war.
- Partisan - n. - The commander of a body of detached light troops engaged in making forays and harassing an enemy.
- Heretog - n. - The leader or commander of an army; also, a marshal.
- Enomotarch - n. - The commander of an enomoty.
- Navarch - n. - The commander of a fleet.
- Captain - n. - An officer in the United States navy, next above a commander and below a commodore, and ranking with a colonel in the army.
- Agha - n. - In Turkey, a commander or chief officer. It is used also as a title of respect.
- Waywode - n. - Originally, the title of a military commander in various Slavonic countries; afterwards applied to governors of towns or provinces. It was assumed for a time by the rulers of Moldavia and Wallachia, who were afterwards called hospodars, and has also been given to some inferior Turkish officers.
- Ovation - n. - A lesser kind of triumph allowed to a commander for an easy, bloodless victory, or a victory over slaves.
- Seraskier - n. - A general or commander of land forces in the Turkish empire; especially, the commander-in-chief of minister of war.
- Herald - n. - An officer whose business was to denounce or proclaim war, to challenge to battle, to proclaim peace, and to bear messages from the commander of an army. He was invested with a sacred and inviolable character.
- Commandery - n. - A district under the administration of a military commander or governor.
- Disapprove - v. t. - To refuse official approbation to; to disallow; to decline to sanction; as, the sentence of the court-martial was disapproved by the commander in chief.
- Visitation - n. - The act of a naval commander who visits, or enters on board, a vessel belonging to another nation, for the purpose of ascertaining her character and object, but without claiming or exercising a right of searching the vessel. It is, however, usually coupled with the right of search (see under Search), visitation being used for the purpose of search.
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- G5506 χιλίαρχος - 5506 χιλίαρχος - ΧΙΛΊΑΡΧΟΣ - - chilíarchos - khil-ee'-ar-khos - from χίλιοι and ἄρχω; the commander of a thousand soldiers ("chiliarch"; i.e. colonel:--(chief, high) captain. - Noun Masculine - greek
- G1988 ἐπιστάτης - 1988 ἐπιστάτης - ἘΠΙΣΤΆΤΗΣ - - epistátēs - ep-is-tat'-ace - from ἐπί and a presumed derivative of ἵστημι; an appointee over, i.e. commander (teacher):--master. - Noun Masculine - greek
- H5057 נָגִיד - 5057 נָגִיד - נָגִיד - - nâgîyd - naw-gheed' - or נָגִד; from נָגַד; a commander (as occupying the front), civil, military or religious; generally (abstractly, plural), honorable themes; captain, chief, excellent thing, (chief) governor, leader, noble, prince, (chief) ruler. - Noun Masculine - heb
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