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[Captain]
** English
[wikipedia]
*** Etymology
[en][en] From [en], [enm], from [en], from [en], from [en] (English [en]).
Ultimately from [en]. [en], also from Old French.
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [naval, informal] [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Noun
[en-noun]
1. A chief or leader .
2. * [Matthew]
3. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1929 | author=w:Rudyard Kipling | title=The English Way | url=http://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/rg_englishway1.htm
|passage=Stand up-stand up, Northumberland! / I bid you answer true, / If
England's King has under his hand / A CAPTAIN as good as you?}}
1. The person lawfully in command of a ship or other vessel .
2. * [chapter=I]
3. An army officer with a rank between the most senior grade of lieutenant and major .
4. * [chapter=I]
5. A naval officer with a rank between commander and commodore .
6. A commissioned officer in the United States Navy , Coast Guard , NOAA Corps , or PHS Corps of a grade superior to a commander and junior to a rear admiral (lower half) . A captain is equal in grade or rank to a United States Army , Marine Corps , or Air Force colonel .
7. [en] One of the athlete s on a sports team who is designate d to make decisions, and is allowed to speak for his team with a referee or official .
8. * {{ quote-text | en | year=2000 | author=w:Gregory Allen Howard | title=w:Remember the Titans
|passage= CAPTAIN'S supposed to be the leader, right?}}
1. * {{ quote-journal | en | date=May 5, 2012 | author=Phil McNulty | work=BBC Sport
|title=Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool (see
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/17878435) |passage=As Di Matteo
celebrated and CAPTAIN John Terry raised the trophy for the fourth time, the
Italian increased his claims to become the permanent successor to Andre
Villas-Boas by landing a trophy.}}
1. The leader of a group of workers.
2. * [en]
3. The head boy of a school .
4. A maître d' , a headwaiter .
5. * 1977 , Don Felder, Don Henley [,] and Glenn Frey, lyricists, 吴语: Hotel California (song) , < !--exact lyrics need verification from accurate source-->
6. *: So I called up the CAPTAIN , "Please bring me my wine." / He said: "We haven't had that spirit here since 1969."
7. [en] [An honorific title given to a prominent person. See _colonel_ .]
**** Synonyms
- [leader of a group of workers] [en] , [en] , [en]
- [commander of a vessel] [en] , [en]
- [pilot in command] [en] , [en]
- [military rank] [en] , [en] , [en] , [en] , [en] [abbreviation]
**** Derived terms
{{col|en|captaincy|captainish|captainless|captainlike|captainly|captainship|cocaptain|subcaptain|undercaptain|captainess|captain-general|Captain
America|captain of the fleet|captain of industry|police captain |Captains
Flat|captain's servant|captain save a hoe|senior ship of the line
captain|senior ship-of-the-line captain|ship-of-the-line captain |corvette
captain|cruiser captain|flag captain|fleet captain|flotilla captain|frigate
captain|bell captain|senior captain|block captain|bus captain|captain
ball|captain general|captain regent|copper captain|country captain|group
captain|led captain|post-captain|road captain|sea captain|staff captain|the
captain goes down with the ship|train captain|vice-captain|donatary
captain|school captain|barangay captain|post captain|frigate captain|corvette
captain|captain of sea and war|ship of the line captain}}
**** Descendants
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- [acw]
- [haw]
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- [ja]
- [ko]
- [mi]
- [sw]
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**** Translations
[an army officer with a rank between the most senior grade of lieutenant and
major]
- Afrikaans: [af]
- Albanian: [sq]
- Arabic: [ar] , [ar]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Belarusian: [be]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Icelandic: [is] , [is] , [is]
- Indonesian: [id]
- Irish: [ga]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Korean: [ko]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Malay: [ms]
- Malayalam: [ml]
- Maori: [mi]
- Marathi: [mr]
- Norman: [nrf] [Jersey]
- Northern Ohlone: [cst]
- Norwegian:
- Occitan: [oc]
- Persian: [fa]
- Plautdietsch: [pdt]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovak: [sk]
- Slovene: [sl] , [sl] , [sl] , [sl]
- Sorbian:
- Spanish: [es]
- Swahili: [sw]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Tagalog: [tl]
- Thai: [th]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
- Uzbek: [uz]
- Walloon: [wa]
- Welsh: [cy] , [cy]
- Yiddish: [yi]
[trans-bottom]
[a naval officer with a rank between commander and commodore or rear admiral]
- Afrikaans: [af]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Indonesian: [id]
- Irish: [ga]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Korean: [ko] , [ko]
- Maori: [mi]
- Marathi: [mr]
- Norman: [nrf] [Jersey]
- Norwegian:
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota]
- Persian: [fa]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
- Russian: [ru]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Swahili: [sw]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Walloon: [wa]
- Welsh: [cy] , [cy]
- Yiddish: [yi]
[trans-bottom]
[an air force officer with a rank between the most senior grade of lieutenant
and major]
- Greek: [el]
- Indonesian: [id]
- Marathi: [mr]
- Norwegian:
- Welsh: [cy] , [cy]
[trans-bottom]
[the person lawfully in command of a sea-going vessel]
- Albanian: [sq]
- Arabic: [ar] , [ar] , [ar]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Aromanian: [rup]
- Belarusian: [be]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Burmese: [my]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl] [nl]
- Egyptian: [sḫry]
- Erzya: [myv]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Faroese: [fo]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [el] , [informal] [el]
- Hebrew: [he] , [he] , [he]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Indonesian: [id] , [id]
- Irish: [ga]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Korean: [ko]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Malay: [ms]
- Middle English: [enm] , [enm]
- Ngazidja Comorian: [zdj]
- Norman: [nrf] [Jersey]
- Norwegian:
- Persian: [fa]
- Plautdietsch: [pdt]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd] , [gd]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swahili: [sw]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Thai: [th]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
- Vietnamese: [vi]
- Welsh: [cy] , [cy]
- Yiddish: [yi]
[trans-bottom]
[the person lawfully in command of an airliner]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Burmese: [my]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [el] , [el] [informal]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Indonesian: [id]
- Irish: [ga]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Korean: [ko]
- Norman: [nrf] [Jersey]
- Norwegian:
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
- Slovak: [sk]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Yiddish: [yi]
[trans-bottom]
[one of the athletes on a sports team designated to make decisions]
- Arabic: [ar] , [ar]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Indonesian: [id]
- Irish: [ga]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Korean: [ko]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Marathi: [mr] , [mr] , [mr]
- Norman: [nrf] [Jersey]
- Norwegian:
- Persian: [fa]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd] , [gd]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swahili: [sw]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Vietnamese: [vi]
- Yiddish: [yi]
[trans-bottom]
[a maître d', a headwaiter]
[checktrans-top]
- Georgian: [ka]
- Spanish: [es]
- West Frisian: [fy]
[trans-bottom]
*** Verb
[en-verb]
1. [en] To act as captain
2. [en] To exercise command of a ship, aircraft or sports team.
**** Related terms
[en]
**** Translations
[to act as a captain]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Czech: [cs]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- Galician: [gl]
- Greek: [el]
- Polish: [pl]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swahili: [sw]
[trans-bottom]
[to exercise command]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Catalan: [ca] [aircraft, ship]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr] [aircraft, ship]
- Galician: [gl]
- Greek: [el] , [el] [vessel]
- Persian: [fa]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt] [aircraft, ship]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] [aircraft]
- Swahili: [sw]
[trans-bottom]
*** Anagrams
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[en]