Noun: commander
| Singular | commander |
| Plural | commanders |
Sample Sentences
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I think if post commanders of the unchaplained posts could employ acceptable clergymen […] then the needs might be met. [1883, United States. War Department, Annual Reports of the War Department, volume 1, page 128:]
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Instead, Korda squeezes Eisenhower’s extraordinary two-term presidency — not to mention his stints as president of Columbia University and commander of NATO forces — into 140 themeless pages. [2007 September 30, Douglas Brinkley, “Overlord’s Overlord”, in The New York Times:]
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Shepard: I don't take orders from you anymore, remember?
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Anderson: Consider yourself reinstated... Commander. [2012, BioWare, Mass Effect 3 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Earth:]
Nouns inflected like commander
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English comaundour, commaunder, comaunder, borrowed from Old French comandeor, cumandeur, from comander. By surface analysis, command + -er. See command. See: Middle English Nouns '
comaundour'.