captain

Meaning of captain

noun
  1. A chief or leader.
  2. The person lawfully in command of a ship or other vessel.
    The captain is the last man to leave a sinking ship.
  3. An army officer with a rank between the most senior grade of lieutenant and major.
  4. A naval officer with a rank between commander and commodore.
  5. A commissioned officer in the United States Navy, Coast Guard, NOAA Corps, or PHS Corps of a grade superior to a commander and junior to a rear admiral (lower half). A captain is equal in grade or rank to an Army, Marine Corps, or Air Force colonel.
  6. One of the athletes on a sports team who is designated to make decisions, and is allowed to speak for his team with a referee or official.
  7. The leader of a group of workers.
    John Henry said to the captain, "A man ain't nothing but a man."
  8. The head boy of a school.
  9. A maître d', a headwaiter.
  10. An honorific title given to a prominent person. See colonel.
verb
  1. To act as captain
  2. To exercise command of a ship, aircraft or sports team.

Information about captain

  • The plural form of captain is: captains.
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Hyphenation of captain

cap-tain

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
  • captain is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

captain synonyms

Meaning skipper:

skipper

Meaning master:

master, skipper

Meaning chieftain:

chieftain

Meaning headwaiter:

headwaiter

Meaning :

foreman, supervisor, Capt, pilot

Translation of captain

Anagrams of captain

Anaptic, Capitan, capitan, panctia

Words that rhyme with captain

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