Definitions from Wiktionary (Captain)

▸ noun:  A chief or leader.
▸ noun:  The person lawfully in command of a ship or other vessel.
▸ noun:  An army officer with a rank between the most senior grade of lieutenant and major.
▸ noun:  A naval officer with a rank between commander and commodore.
▸ noun:  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.
▸ noun:  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.
▸ noun:  The leader of a group of workers.
▸ noun:  The head boy of a school.
▸ noun:  A maître d', a headwaiter.
▸ noun:  (Southern US) An honorific title given to a prominent person. See colonel.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To act as captain
▸ verb:  (transitive) To exercise command of a ship, aircraft or sports team.
▸ noun:  The honorific of a captain, especially a ship's captain or a person with the military rank of captain.
▸ noun:  (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
▸ noun:  (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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