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

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