captain
captain is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 3 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 34 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.A military leader; a warrior. Foremost captain of his time. Tennyson. Captain general. (a) The commander in chief of an army or armies, or of the militia. (b) The Spanish governor of Cuba and its dependent islands. -- Captain lieutenant, a lieutenant with the rank and duties of captain but with a lieutenant's pay, -- as in the first company of an English regiment.
- 2.To act as captain of; to lead. [R.] Men who captained or accompanied the exodus from existing forms. Lowell.
- 3.Chief; superior. [R.] captain jewes in the carcanet. Shak.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- address
- after
- apple
- child
- cosset
- crony
- darling
- dear
- duck
- eye
- favorite
- fondling
- general
- heart
- honey
- idol
- jewel
- led
- love
- man
- minion
- moppet
- mopsey
- own
- people
- person
- persona
- pet
- princess
- sugar
- sweetheart
- the
- universal
- who
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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