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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Commodore \Com"mo*dore`\, n. [Prob. a corruption of commander, or Sp. comendador a knight of a military order who holds a commandery; also a superior of a monastery, fr. LL. commendare to command. Cf. Commend , Command , Commander .] (U. S. Navy) An officer ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1690s, probably via Dutch kommandeur from French commandeur , from Old French comandeor (see commander ). In U.S. Navy, above a captain, below a rear-admiral.
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Commodore (Kommodori) is a rank of Finnish Navy equal to captain in English-speaking navies being above commander (Komentaja) and below Flotilla Admiral (Lippueamiraali), equal Army rank is colonel . During peacetime only a graduate of Finnish National ...
Usage examples of commodore.
The two women had taken an instant dislike to one another upon meeting many years before and that dislike had grown steadily worse since Amala had become the consort of Commodore Lexis, the OIC of the Ministry of Public Education.
I begged Mr Lloyd for a boat, a small boat, but he declared that it was as much as his skin was worth to suffer me to go without an order from you, adding, with an inhuman leer, that he thought the Commodore would have anchors atrip before the ebb.
In the shadow of a neighbouring bush Captain Scraggs babbled of steam beer in the Bowhead saloon, and the commodore, stifling his own agony, watched his comrades until their lips and tongues, parched with thirst, refused longer to produce even a moan, and silence settled over the dismal camp.
Stephen had had plenty of time to reflect upon the trifling interval between the perception of a grateful odour and active salivation and to make a variety of experiments, checked by his austerely beautiful and accurate Breguet repeater, before the door burst open and the Commodore strode in, sure-footed on the heaving deck and scattering seawater in most directions.
Villemin to take station to windward of Bucephalas, even if that meant the sacrifice of time, vital minutes when the commodore would have to face both his enemies at once.
Villemin was coming on and he would soon be in position to do to Bucephalas what Harry Ludlow had done to his commodore.
In the next year, Commodore Byron formed a counter settlement at Port Egmont on East Falkland.
It would have stated that in the event of Commodore Gahan becoming incapacitated Captain Ashton would assume command of the squadron.
In the West Indies some unsuccessful efforts were made by an English squadron, commanded by commodore Knowles.
When we heave-to, Commodore proposes you should call with your boat at Baden for Captain Kreis en route to Fermenger.
I have two clubs: The Creek, a country club, which is where we were having dinner with the Remsens, and The Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club, whose first commodore was William K.
Here he was discovered by the ship Rippon, whose captain returned immediately to Basseterre, to make the commodore acquainted with this circumstance: but before he could weigh anchor, a frigate arrived with information, that Bompart had quitted Grenada, and was supposed to have directed his course to Hispaniola.
The others were given the afternoon to range the island and practice up their woodcraft and landmark work, while Rob busied himself in his tent, which was equipped with a small folding camp table, in filling out his pink blank reports which were to be forwarded to Commodore Wingate and dispatched by him to the headquarters of the Boy Scouts in New York.
Conversation turning upon whales, the Commodore was pleased to be sceptical touching the amazing strength ascribed to them by the professional gentlemen present.
Commodore became as impetuous as Ann. He increased our speed until he had us racing downstream under full throttle, veering among sandbanks and past wrecks.