commodore

English Thesaurus

1. a commissioned naval officer who ranks above a captain and below a rear admiral; the lowest grade of admiral (noun.person)

hypernym	:	commissioned naval officer,
definition	:	a commissioned officer in the navy (noun.person)

instance hyponym	:	commodore perry, oliver hazard perry, perry,
definition	:	United States commodore who led the fleet that defeated the British on Lake Erie during the War of 1812; brother of Matthew Calbraith Perry (1785-1819) (noun.person)

domain category	:	armed forces, armed services, military, military machine, war machine,
definition	:	the military forces of a nation (noun.group)