Usually means: Naval rank above captain, below.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. commodore: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. commodore: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. commodore: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. commodore: Collins English Dictionary
  5. commodore: Vocabulary.com
  6. commodore: Wordnik
  7. commodore: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Commodore, commodore: Wiktionary
  9. commodore: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. commodore: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. commodore: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Commodore, commodore: Dictionary.com
  13. commodore: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Commodore (Australia), Commodore (Canada), Commodore (RN), Commodore (Royal Navy), Commodore (Star Trek), Commodore (USN), Commodore (United States), Commodore (disambiguation), Commodore (rank), Commodore (shipwreck), Commodore (yacht club), Commodore, The Commodore (novel), The Commodore: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Commodore: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. commodore: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. commodore: Rhymezone
  18. Commodore: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. commodore: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. Commodore: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  21. commodore: Free Dictionary
  22. commodore: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. commodore: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. Commodore: Wordnik

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Commodore (disambiguation), commodore: Encyclopedia

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  1. Commodore: Latitude Mexico

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (military, nautical) A naval officer holding a rank between captain and rear admiral.
noun:  (nautical) A (temporary) commander over a collection of ships who is not an admiral.
noun:  (nautical) The leading ship in a fleet of merchantmen.
noun:  (nautical) The president of a yacht club.
noun:  (nautical) A yacht-club president's vessel in a regatta.
noun:  (US, military, nautical) A rear admiral (lower half).
noun:  (entomology) Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the Asian genus Parasarpa.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  (military, nautical) Ellipsis of commodore admiral. [(US, military, nautical, historical) a flag officer of a rank between a captain and a rear admiral, having a O7 NATO rank scale equivalency.]

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