Synonyms of the word captain


CAPTAINCHIEFTAIN - HEAD - HEADWAITER - LEAD - LEADER - MASTER - OFFICER - PILOT - POLICEMAN - SKIPPER

captain

  • n. A chief or leader.
  • n. The person lawfully in command of a ship or other vessel.
  • n. An army officer with a rank between the most senior grade of lieutenant and major.
  • n. A naval officer with a rank between commander and commodore.
  • n. A commissioned officer in the United States Navy, Coast Guard, NOAA Corps, or PHS Corps of a grade superior…
  • n. One of the athletes on a sports team who designated to make decisions, and is allowed to speak for his…
  • n. The leader of a group of workers.
  • n. A maître d'.
  • n. (Southern US) An honorific title given to a prominent person. See colonel.
  • n. (Internet) Someone who provides contextual information for a post. Originally a shorthand for 'Captain…
  • v. (intransitive) To act as captain.
  • v. (transitive) To exercise command of a ship, aircraft or sports team.

chieftain

  • n. A leader of a clan or tribe.
  • n. A leader of a group.

head

  • n. (countable) The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense…
  • n. (countable) The topmost, foremost, or leading part.
  • n. (social, countable) A leader or expert.
  • n. A significant or important part.
  • n. Headway; progress.
  • n. Topic; subject.
  • n. (uncountable) Denouement; crisis.
  • n. (fluid dynamics) Pressure and energy.
  • n. (slang, uncountable) Fellatio or cunnilingus; oral sex.
  • n. (slang) The glans penis.
  • n. (slang, countable) A heavy or habitual user of illicit drugs.
  • n. (obsolete) Power; armed force.
  • adj. Of, relating to, or intended for the head.
  • adj. Foremost in rank or importance.
  • adj. Placed at the top or the front.
  • adj. Coming from in front.
  • v. (transitive) To be in command of. (See also head up.).
  • v. (transitive) To strike with the head; as in soccer, to head the ball.
  • v. (intransitive) To move in a specified direction.
  • v. (fishing) To remove the head from a fish.
  • v. (intransitive) To originate; to spring; to have its course, as a river.
  • v. (intransitive) To form a head.
  • v. To form a head to; to fit or furnish with a head.
  • v. To cut off the top of; to lop off.
  • v. (obsolete) To behead; to decapitate.
  • v. To go in front of; to get in the front of, so as to hinder or stop; to oppose; hence, to check or restrain.
  • v. To set on the head.

headwaiter

  • n. A waiter who has a supervisory position over the other wait staff; chief waiter.

lead

  • n. (uncountable) A heavy, pliable, inelastic metal element, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnishe…
  • n. (countable) A plummet or mass of lead attached to a line, used in sounding depth at seaor (dated) to estimate…
  • n. A thin strip of type metal, used to separate lines of type in printing.
  • n. (uncountable, typography) Vertical space in advance of a row or between rows of text. Also known as leading.
  • n. Sheets or plates of lead used as a covering for roofs.
  • n. (plural leads) A roof covered with lead sheets or terne plates.
  • n. (countable) A thin cylinder of black lead or plumbago (graphite) used in pencils.
  • n. (slang) Bullets; ammunition.
  • v. (transitive) To cover, fill, or affect with lead.
  • v. (transitive, printing, historical) To place leads between the lines of.
  • v. (heading, transitive) To guide or conduct.
  • v. (intransitive) To guide or conduct, as by accompanying, going before, showing, influencing, directing…
  • v. (heading) To begin, to be ahead.
  • v. (transitive) To draw or direct by influence, whether good or bad; to prevail on; to induce; to entice;…
  • v. (intransitive) To tend or reach in a certain direction, or to a certain place.
  • v. To produce (with to).
  • v. Misspelling of led.
  • n. (uncountable) The act of leading or conducting; guidance; direction, course.
  • n. (uncountable) Precedence; advance position; also, the measure of precedence; the state of being ahead…
  • n. (countable) An insulated metallic wire for electrical devices and equipment.
  • n. (baseball) The situation where a runner steps away from a base while waiting for the pitch to be thrown.
  • n. (uncountable, card games, dominoes) The act or right of playing first in a game or round; the card suit,…
  • n. (acting) The main role in a play or film; the lead role.
  • n. (acting) The actor who plays the main role; lead actor.
  • n. (countable) A channel of open water in an ice field.
  • n. (countable, mining) A lode.
  • n. (nautical) The course of a rope from end to end.
  • n. A rope, leather strap, or similar device with which to lead an animal; a leash.
  • n. In a steam engine, the width of port opening which is uncovered by the valve, for the admission or release…
  • n. Charging lead.
  • n. (civil engineering) The distance of haul, as from a cutting to an embankment.
  • n. (horology) The action of a tooth, such as a tooth of a wheel, in impelling another tooth or a pallet.
  • n. Hypothesis that has not been pursued.
  • n. Information obtained by a detective or police officer that allows him or her to discover further details…
  • n. (marketing) Potential opportunity for a sale or transaction, a potential customer.
  • n. Information obtained by a news reporter about an issue or subject that allows him or her to discover more…
  • n. (curling) The player who throws the first two rocks for a team.
  • n. (newspapers) A teaser; a lead-in; the start of a newspaper column, telling who, what, when, where, why…
  • n. An important news story that appears on the front page of a newspaper or at the beginning of a news broadcast.
  • n. (engineering) The axial distance a screw thread travels in one revolution. It is equal to the pitch times…
  • n. (music) In a barbershop quartet, the person who sings the melody, usually the second tenor.
  • n. (music) The announcement by one voice part of a theme to be repeated by the other parts.
  • n. (music) A mark or a short passage in one voice part, as of a canon, serving as a cue for the entrance…
  • n. (engineering) The excess above a right angle in the angle between two consecutive cranks, as of a compound…
  • n. (electrical) The angle between the line joining the brushes of a continuous-current dynamo and the diameter…
  • n. (electrical) The advance of the current phase in an alternating circuit beyond that of the electromotive…
  • adj. (not comparable) Foremost.
  • adj. (music) main, principal.
  • v. Misspelling of led.

leader

  • n. Any person that leads or directs.
  • n. An animal that leads.
  • n. Something that leads or conducts.

master

  • n. Someone who has control over something or someone.
  • n. The owner of an animal or slave.
  • n. (nautical) The captain of a merchant ship; a master mariner.
  • n. (dated) The head of a household.
  • n. Someone who employs others.
  • n. An expert at something.
  • n. A tradesman who is qualified to teach apprentices.
  • n. (dated) A schoolmaster.
  • n. A skilled artist.
  • n. (dated) A man or a boy; mister. See Master.
  • n. A master's degree; a type of postgraduate degree, usually undertaken after a bachelor degree.
  • n. A person holding such a degree.
  • n. The original of a document or of a recording.
  • n. (film) The primary wide shot of a scene, into which the closeups will be edited later.
  • n. (law) A parajudicial officer (such as a referee, an auditor, an examiner, or an assessor) specially appointed…
  • n. (engineering) A device that is controlling other devices or is an authoritative source (e.g. master database).
  • n. (freemasonry) A person holding an office of authority, especially the presiding officer.
  • n. (by extension) A person holding a similar office in other civic societies.
  • adj. Masterful.
  • adj. Main, principal or predominant.
  • adj. Highly skilled.
  • adj. Original.
  • v. (intransitive) To be a master.
  • v. (transitive) To become the master of; to subject to one's will, control, or authority; to conquer; to…
  • v. (transitive) To learn to a high degree of proficiency.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To own; to posses.
  • v. (transitive, especially of a musical performance) To make a master copy of.
  • v. (intransitive, usually with in) To earn a Master's degree.
  • n. (nautical, in combination) A vessel having a specified number of masts.

officer

  • n. One who has a position of authority in a hierarchical organization, especially in military, police or…
  • n. One who holds a public office.
  • n. An agent or servant imparted with the ability, to some degree, to act on initiative.
  • n. (colloquial, military) A commissioned officer.
  • v. (transitive) To supply with officers.
  • v. (transitive) To command like an officer.

pilot

  • n. A person who steers a ship, a helmsman.
  • n. A person who knows well the depths and currents of a harbor or coastal area, who is hired by a vessel…
  • n. An instrument for detecting the compass error.
  • n. (Australia, road transport, informal) A pilot vehicle.
  • n. (Australia, road transport) A person authorised to drive such a vehicle during an escort.
  • n. A guide or escort through an unknown or dangerous area.
  • n. Something serving as a test or trial.
  • n. A person who is in charge of the controls of an aircraft.
  • n. A sample episode of a proposed TV series.
  • n. (rail transport) A cowcatcher.
  • n. A pilot light.
  • n. One who flies a kite.
  • n. A short plug, sometimes made interchangeable, at the end of a counterbore to guide the tool.
  • adj. Made or used as a test or demonstration of capability. (pilot run, pilot plant).
  • adj. Used to control or activate another device. (pilot light).
  • adj. A vehicle to warn other road users of the presence of an oversize vehicle/combination. (pilot vehicle).
  • adj. Used to indicate operation ("pilot lamp").
  • v. (transitive) To control (an aircraft or watercraft).
  • v. (transitive) To guide (a vessel) through coastal waters.
  • v. (transitive) To test or have a preliminary trial of (an idea, a new product, etc.).

policeman

  • n. A member of a police force, especially one who is male.
  • n. (chemistry) A glass rod capped at one end with rubber, used in a chemistry laboratory for gravimetric…

skipper

  • n. (nautical) The master of a ship.
  • n. A coach, director, or other leader.
  • n. (sports) The captain of a sports team such as football, cricket, rugby or curling.
  • v. (transitive) To captain a ship.
  • n. Agent noun of skip: one who skips.
  • n. A person who skips, or fails to attend class.
  • n. Any of various butterflies of the families Hesperiidae and its subfamily Megathyminae, having a hairy…
  • n. Any of several marine fishes that often leap above water, especially Cololabis saira, the Pacific saury.
  • n. (obsolete) A young, thoughtless person.
  • n. The cheese maggot, the larva of a cheese fly, in Piophilidae, which leap to escape predators.

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