commodore

 

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Borrowed from Dutch kommandeur, from Middle French commandeur. See command, compare commend (a doublet), and mandate.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔ.mə.doɹ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒm.ə.dɔː/

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commodore (plural commodores)

1. (military, nautical) A naval officer holding a rank between captain and rear admiral.
2. (nautical) A (temporary) commander over a collection of ships who is not an admiral.
3. (nautical) The leading ship in a fleet of merchantmen.
4. (nautical) The president of a yacht club.
5. (nautical) A yacht-club president's vessel in a regatta.
6. (military, nautical) Ellipsis of commodore admiral.
7. (US, military, nautical) A rear admiral (lower half).
8. (entomology) Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the Asian genus Parasarpa.

The equivalent army rank is brigadier, senior colonel, brigadier general, or lowest ranking general officer grade.

• (non-flag naval rank): senior captain, fleet captain, flag captain
• (nautical): senior captain, fleet captain, flag captain, shipmaster senior grade
• (flag naval rank): CDRE, COMO (abbreviation)
• (naval rank): Cmdre, Cmdre. (abbreviation)

• → Italian: commodoro
• → Portuguese: comodoro
• → Spanish: comodoro

Borrowed from Dutch kommandeur, from Middle French commandeur; from Latin commendare, from com- + mandare, from mandō (“to order, command”).

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.mɔ.dɔʁ/

• Audio:

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commodore m or f by sense (plural commodores)

1. (military, nautical) commodore, a naval military rank between captain (capitaine de vaisseau or capitaine de croiseur) and rear admiral (contre-amiral)

• cmdre, cmdre. (abbreviation)

• “commodore”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.