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commodore

noun

  1. U.S. Navy
    1. Historical an officer ranking above a captain and below a rear admiral: the rank was abolished in 1899 but temporarily restored in WWII
    2. an officer, with the rank of captain, commanding two or more small ships, as destroyers
  2. the president of a yacht club
  3. the senior captain of a merchant fleet

See commodore in American Heritage Dictionary 4

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