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/ˈkäməˌdôr/,
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commodores, plural;
  1. A naval officer of high rank, in particular an officer in the US Navy or Coast Guard ranking above captain and below rear admiral

  2. The president of a yacht club

  3. The senior captain of a shipping line

  1. a commissioned naval officer who ranks above a captain and below a rear admiral; the lowest grade of admiral
  2. Commodore is the lowest of the flag officer ranks in the Canadian Forces; it is equivalent to Brigadier General in the Army and Air Force. It is junior to Rear Admiral and Major General, and senior to Captain and Colonel.
  3. The Holden Commodore is an automobile manufactured since 1978 by the Holden subsidiary of General Motors (GM) in Australia, and, formerly, in New Zealand. In the mid-1970s, Holden established proposals to replace the long-serving Kingswood nameplate with a smaller, Opel-based model. ...
  4. Commodore (Kommodori) is a rank of Finnish Navy equal to Captain in English -speaking navies being above Commander (Komentaja) and below Flotilla Admiral (Lippueamiraali), equal Army rank is Colonel.
  5. Commodore is a military rank used in many navies for officers whose position exceeds that of a navy captain, but is less than that of a rear admiral. ...
  6. Sea Scouting is a part of the Venturing program that the Boy Scouts of America offers for young men and women. ...
  7. The Commodore was an American steamboat that shipwrecked off the coast of Florida on January 2, 1897, while en route to Cuba. ...
  8. Starfleet ranks and insignia are fictional titles and badges that form the hierarchy of Starfleet in the Star Trek television shows and movies. Starfleet's ranks seem to be based on those used by the United States Navy.
  9. Commodore is a former rank in the United States Navy and United States Coast Guard and a current honorary title in the U.S. Navy with an intricate history. Because the U.S. ...
  10. A yacht club is a sports club specifically related to sailing and yachting.
  11. The Commodore (published 1945) is a Horatio Hornblower novel written by C. S. Forester. It was published in the United States under the title Commodore Hornblower.
  12. The Commodore (1995) is a further historical novel entry in the Aubrey-Maturin series of naval stories by Patrick O'Brian. Set in the middle of the Napoleonic Wars, O'Brian takes the narrative further across the globe than others in this genre. ...
  13. (Commodores (album)) Commodores is a self-titled album released in 1977 by the Commodores. The band employed a variety of musical stylings for the album, highlighted by the popular sex anthem "Brick House". ...
  14. (The Commodores) The Commodores is an American funk/soul band of the 1970s and 1980s. The members of the group met as freshmen at Tuskegee Institute (now Tuskegee University) in 1968, and signed with Motown in November 1972, having first caught the public eye opening for The Jackson 5 while on ...
  15. This rank was established in the Royal Navy in 1622, by King William II, and derives from the Dutch Commandeur. Traditionally, the commodore was in command of a squadron detached from the main body of the fleet. Unlike the Royal Navy, commodore is a permanent rank in the Canadian Armed Forces.
  16. the senior commander of a Naval squadron, FLOTILLA, or CONVOY during wartime, being a duty position and not a RATING. Also, a former RANK equivalent to Brigadier General (O-7), situated between Naval CAPTAIN and Rear Admiral, but now designated Rear Admiral Lower-Half (RADML). ...
  17. claimed that the C64's disk drive was more expensive to manufacture than the C64 itself.
  18. fifteen pounds (£15). The origin is almost certainly London, and the clever and amusing derivation reflects the wit of Londoners: Cockney rhyming slang for five pounds is a 'lady', (from Lady Godiva = fiver); fifteen pounds is three-times five pounds (3x£5=£15); 'Three Times a Lady' is a song ...
  19. This title arose from a practiced economy of the old Dutch Admiralty. In her war with England, Holland found herself short of admirals and distressingly short of cash. ...
  20. Commodore Business Machines