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Captain

noun

1.

An officer holding a rank below a major but above a lieutenant.

2.

The naval officer in command of a military ship. Synonym: skipper.

3.

A policeman in charge of a precinct. Synonyms: police captain, police chief.

4.

An officer who is licensed to command a merchant ship. Synonyms: master, sea captain, skipper.

5.

The leader of a group of people. Synonym: chieftain.

6.

The pilot in charge of an airship. Synonym: senior pilot.

7.

A dining-room attendant who is in charge of the waiters and the seating of customers. Synonyms: headwaiter, maitre d', maitre d'hotel.

verb

1.

Be the captain of a sports team.

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... lady to whom Captain Burton is married is believed to be a bigoted Roman Catholic, and to be likely to influence him against ...

— The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton Volume II • Isabel Lady Burton & W. H. Wilkins

... antipodes of the ideal; and like other visionaries of a different stamp, they date the Millennium or New Order of Things from the Restoration of the Bourbons. 'Fine words butter no parsnips,' says the proverb. 'While you are talking of marrying, I am thinking of hanging,' says Captain Macheath. Of all people the most tormenting are those who bid you hope in the midst of despair, who, by never caring about anything but their own sanguine, hair-brained Utopian schemes, have at no time any particular cause for embarrassment ...

— Table-Talk - Essays on Men and Manners • William Hazlitt

... and Prussian Turks will never see it—like the Bourbons, they learn not. Here is a typically military system, the work of "born fighters" which has gone down in welter before the assaults of much less military States, the chief of which, indeed, has grown up in what Captain von Herbert has called, with some contempt, "stagnant and enfeebling peace conditions," formed by the people whom the Turks regarded as quite unfit to be made into warriors; whom they regarded much as some Europeans regard ...

— Peace Theories and the Balkan War • Norman Angell

... spare room pertaining to Brother Bonaday he and Brother Copas were (as the latter put it) making very bad weather with their preparations. They supposed themselves, however, to have plenty of time, little guessing that the captain of the Carnatic had been breaking records. In St. Hospital one soon learns to neglect mankind's infatuation for mere speed; and yet, strange to say, Brother Copas was discoursing on this ...

— Brother Copas • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

... said to Savaric de Marsan. "I cook. But I do not cook for cannibals, and my faith! I think that robber captain will end by devouring his fellow-men. I have no mind to poison the food of his enemies, either, so when they went away I hid in the great tun. I am ...

— Masters of the Guild • L. Lamprey

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