单词 | commander |
释义 | commander —commandership, n. /keuh man"deuhr, -mahn"-/, n. 1. a person who commands. 2. a person who exercises authority; chief officer; leader. 3. the commissioned officer in command of a military unit. 4. U.S. Navy. an officer ranking below a captain and above a lieutenant commander. 5. a police officer in charge of a precinct or other unit. 6. the chief officer of a commandery in the medieval orders of Knights Hospitalers, Knights Templars, and others. 7. a member of one of the higher classes or ranks in certain modern fraternal orders, as in the Knights Templars. [1250-1300; ME < OF comandere, equiv. to comand(er) to COMMAND + -ere < L -ator- -ATOR] |
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