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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
commodore
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
air commodore
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
air
▪ The following month he received a permanent commission in the Royal Air Force, soon afterwards being promoted air commodore.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ The commodore had made a virtually impossible decision.
▪ The commodore, of course, was right.
▪ The following month he received a permanent commission in the Royal Air Force, soon afterwards being promoted air commodore.
▪ The navy's 52 admirals and commodores outnumber serviceable ships by a ratio of six to one.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Commodore

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.]

  1. (U. S. Navy) An officer who ranks next above a captain; sometimes, by courtesy, the senior captain of a squadron. The rank of commodore corresponds with that of brigadier general in the army.

  2. (British Navy) A captain commanding a squadron, or a division of a fleet, or having the temporary rank of rear admiral.

  3. A title given by courtesy to the senior captain of a line of merchant vessels, and also to the chief officer of a yachting or rowing club.

  4. A familiar for the flagship, or for the principal vessel of a squadron or fleet.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
commodore

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.

Wiktionary
commodore

n. 1 (context military nautical English) A naval officer holding a rank between captain and rear admiral. 2 (context nautical English) A (temporary) commander over a collection of ships who is not an admiral. 3 (context nautical English) The president of a yacht club 4 (context US military nautical English) A commodore admiral 5 (context US military nautical English) A rear admiral (lower half)

WordNet
commodore

n. a commissioned naval officer who ranks above a captain and below a rear admiral; the lowest grade of admiral

Gazetteer
Commodore, PA -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Pennsylvania
Population (2000): 337
Housing Units (2000): 147
Land area (2000): 0.768239 sq. miles (1.989730 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.003810 sq. miles (0.009867 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.772049 sq. miles (1.999597 sq. km)
FIPS code: 15464
Located within: Pennsylvania (PA), FIPS 42
Location: 40.710694 N, 78.945857 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 15729
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Wikipedia
Commodore

Commodore generally refers to Commodore (rank), a naval rank. It may also refer to:

Commodore (rank)

Commodore is a naval rank used in many navies that is superior to a navy captain, but below a rear admiral. Non-English-speaking nations often use the rank of flotilla admiral or counter admiral or senior captain as an equivalent, although counter admiral may also correspond to rear admiral.

Traditionally, "commodore" is the title for any officer assigned to command more than one ship at a time, even temporarily, much as "captain" is the traditional title for the commanding officer of a single ship even if the officer's official title in the service is a lower rank. As an official rank, a commodore typically commands a flotilla or squadron of ships as part of a larger task force or naval fleet commanded by an admiral. A commodore's ship is typically designated by the flying of a Broad pennant, as opposed to an admiral's flag.

It is often regarded as a one-star rank with a NATO code of OF-6 (which is known in the U.S. as " rear admiral (lower half)"), but whether it is regarded as a flag rank varies between countries.

It is sometimes abbreviated: as "Cdre" in British Royal Navy, "CDRE" in the US Navy, "Cmdre" in the Royal Canadian Navy, "COMO" in the Spanish Navy and in some navies speaking the Spanish language, or "CMDE" as used in the Indian Navy or in some other Navies.

Commodore (Royal Navy)
Please see Commodore (rank) for other versions of this rank.

Commodore (Cdre) is a rank of the Royal Navy above captain and below rear admiral. It has a NATO ranking code of OF-6. The rank is equivalent to brigadier in the British Army and Royal Marines and to air commodore in the Royal Air Force.

Commodore (United States)

Commodore was an early title and later a rank in the United States Navy, United States Coast Guard and the Confederate States Navy. For over two centuries, the designation has been given varying levels of authority and formality. Today, it is no longer a rank, but it continues to be used as an honorary title within the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Coast Guard for those senior captains (pay grade O-6) in command of operational organizations composed of multiple independent subordinate naval units (e.g., multiple independent ships or aviation squadrons).

Commodore (Finland)

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 Defence University can achieve the rank of commodore, and even during wartime reserve officers may achieve the rank of commodore only under anomalous circumstances.

Commodore (Canada)

Commodore (Cmdre) is the lowest flag officer rank in the Royal Canadian Navy of the Canadian Forces. It is equivalent to Brigadier General in the Canadian Army and Royal Canadian Air Force. It is junior to Rear Admiral and Major General, and senior to Captain and Colonel.

A wide gold band with executive curl is displayed on each sleeve of the service dress and mess dress. Shoulder boards and rank slip-ons have a single maple leaf, above which is a crossed sabre and baton surmounted by St Edward's Crown.

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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.