Commodore Definition

kŏmə-dôr
noun
An officer ranking above a captain and below a rear admiral: the rank was abolished in 1899 but temporarily restored in WWII.
Webster's New World
One who holds this rank.
American Heritage
Used as an honorary title for a captain in the US Navy in command of a fleet division or squadron.
American Heritage
The senior captain of a merchant fleet.
Webster's New World
The president of a yacht club.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Commodore

Noun

Singular:
commodore
Plural:
commodores

Origin of Commodore

  • Obsolete commandore probably from Dutch komandeur commander from French commandeur from Old French from comander to command command

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Obsolete commandore probably from Dutch komandeur commander from French commandeur from Old French from comander to command command

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Borrowing from Dutch kommandeur, from French commandeur, from Old French comandeor (“commander”).

    From Wiktionary

Commodore Sentence Examples

  • The American commodore was considered by many of his subordinates to have displayed excessive caution.

  • They passed over the pond toward Fair Haven, seemingly deterred from settling by my light, their commodore honking all the while with a regular beat.

  • On Congress Street, below the Observatory, is the Eastern Cemetery, the oldest burying ground of the city; in it are the graves of Commodore Edward Preble, and of Captain Samuel Blythe (1784-1813) and Captain William Burroughs (1785-1813), who were killed in the engagement between the British brig "Boxer" and the American brig "Enterprise," their respective ships, off this coast on the 5th of September 1813.

  • He was promoted to commodore in 1898, to rear-admiral on the 3rd of March 1899, and was made commandant of the Boston (Charlestown) Navy Yard in October of the same year.

  • In 1776 Commodore Hopkins, of the American navy, took the island of New Providence; he soon, however, abandoned it as untenable, but in 1781 it was retaken by the Spanish governor of Cuba.

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