captain
IPA: kˈæptʌn
noun
- 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
verb
- (intransitive) To act as captain
- (transitive) To exercise command of a ship, aircraft or sports team.
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Examples of "captain" in Sentences
- The burgess was the captain.
- The captain is very pompous.
- He was the captain of the squad.
- The captain was shouting furiously.
- The captain was found to be negligent.
- The captain acknowledged the instructions.
- Arunkumar is dignified as the ship captain.
- There were a captain and jack on the boat, escaping from the sinking ship.
- Captain is the captain of the Kid Pirates, and one of the Eleven Supernovas.
- At the age of 75, now grey and rotund, he toured in Show Boat as Captain Andy.