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commodore
noun
- U.S. Navy
- Historical an officer ranking above a captain and below a rear admiral: the rank was abolished in 1899 but temporarily restored in WWII
- an officer, with the rank of captain, commanding two or more small ships, as destroyers
- the president of a yacht club
- the senior captain of a merchant fleet
See commodore in American Heritage Dictionary 4
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