Commodore
Commodore noun - A commissioned naval officer who ranks above a captain and below a rear admiral; the lowest grade of admiral.
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Lieutenant and commodore are semantically related. In some cases you can replace term "Lieutenant" with "Commodore", this nouns are similar.
Lieutenant
Lieutenant noun - A person who helps a more skilled person.
Commodore and lieutenant are semantically related. Sometimes you can replace term "Commodore" with "Lieutenant", this nouns are similar.
Nearby Word: lieutenancy
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The associate officers are given naval ranks, like cadet, lieutenant, captain, commodore, and admiral.
Source: The Sky Is an Ocean - William Bush through most of the Horatio Hornblower books, as his first lieutenant and then the captain of Commodore Hornblower's flagship.
Source: Number Two -
He ends up as acting battalion commander on several occasions (the closest equivalent to commanding a ship) and briefly acting brigade commander (roughly equivalent to a commodore), although much of his time in senior ranks (he rises to lieutenant-colonel) is spent in staff posts.
Source: The Captain
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