captain

IPA: kˈæptʌn

A chief or leader.
The person lawfully in command of a ship or other vessel.
An army officer with a rank between the most senior grade of lieutenant and major.
A naval officer with a rank between commander and commodore.
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.
One of the athletes on a sports team who is designated to make decisions, and is allowed to speak for his team with a referee or official.
The leader of a group of workers.
The head boy of a school.
A maître d', a headwaiter.
(Southern US) An honorific title given to a prominent person. See colonel.
The honorific of a captain, especially a ship's captain or a person with the military rank of captain.
(before a descriptive word or phrase) Forms a title for a superhero seen as embodying or possessing in high degree the qualities associated with the ensuing phrase
(humorous or ironic) (by extension, from the superhero sense) Forms a title or nickname for a person; typically a nonce coinage

Examples of "captain" in Sentences

I tell you Im captain of this ship, captain and owner.
You should really pick one doctor to be what they call the captain of the ship.
` ` Weekes makes two big stops in a row and your captain is able to win it for you.
"It helps who our captain is and you want to play for him and you want to be on the team," Woods says.
But our captain is a strange man, and I beg of you to be prepared for anything — understand? — for anything.
So why Alan Hansen was so confident Montenegro would be put to the sword he recommended resting the captain is a mystery.
The election's outcome determines which players will earn the honor of the title captain for the Kansas University football team.
I have heard, in the armory at Boston, a militia captain (_captain_, mind you!) give the command "Attention!" in three different ways, continually experimenting.
"Just to be on the team with the greatest player in the world as your captain is the greatest honor in the world," Chris DiMarco said shortly after hitting his Cup-clinching putt.
"_Excelsior_" was my motto; and, assisted by the generous captain, I soon after became a third mate, and afterwards a second mate, and, still later, a first mate, and, last of all, a _captain_!