commander

From Middle English comaundour, commaunder, comaunder, borrowed from Old French comandeor, cumandeur, from comander. By surface analysis, command +‎ -er. See command.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /kəˈmændɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kəˈmɑːndə/
• (Northern England) IPA^(key): /kəˈmandə/

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commander (plural commanders)

1. One who exercises control and direction of a military or naval organization.
   • 1883, United States. War Department, Annual Reports of the War Department, volume 1, page 128:

     I think if post commanders of the unchaplained posts could employ acceptable clergymen […] then the needs might be met.

   • 2007 September 30, Douglas Brinkley, “Overlord’s Overlord”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     Instead, Korda squeezes Eisenhower’s extraordinary two-term presidency — not to mention his stints as president of Columbia University and commander of NATO forces — into 140 themeless pages.

2. A naval officer whose rank is above that of a lieutenant commander and below that of captain.
   • 2012, BioWare, Mass Effect 3 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Earth:

     Shepard: I don't take orders from you anymore, remember?
     Anderson: Consider yourself reinstated... Commander.

3. One who exercises control and direction over a group of persons.
4. A designation or rank in certain non-military organizations such as NASA and various police forces.
5. (obsolete) The chief officer of a commandry.
6. A heavy beetle or wooden mallet, used in paving, in sail lofts, etc.
7. A rank within an honorary order: e.g. Commander of the Legion of Honour.
8. Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the Asian genus Moduza.
9. (Singapore, military) A soldier who has attained the rank of sergeant or higher

• commandery

Inherited from Old French comander, from Latin commandāre, variant of commendāre.

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.mɑ̃.de/
• Homophones: commandai, commandé, commandée, commandées, commandés, commandez

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commander

1. to order (tell someone to do something)
2. to order (ask for a product)

• commandeur
• commandement

• commande

• Haitian Creole: kòmande
• → Northern Kurdish: komandar
• → Portuguese: comandar
• → Romanian: comanda

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