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Definition of Commander
Commander

A chief; one who has supreme authority; a leader; the chief officer of an army, or of any division of it.

An officer who ranks next below a captain, -- ranking with a lieutenant colonel in the army.

The chief officer of a commandery.

A heavy beetle or wooden mallet, used in paving, in sail lofts, etc.

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Commander Quotations

In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Of all those in the army close to the commander none is more intimate than the secret agent; of all rewards none more liberal than those given to secret agents; of all matters none is more confidential than those relating to secret operations.
Sun Tzu

As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era.
Friedrich Von Schlegel

As Commander in Chief of the United States Military, I will never send our sons and daughters and our brothers and sisters to die in a foreign land without telling the truth about why they're going there.
Howard Dean

I am encouraged by the news today that United States special operations personnel found, identified and killed the terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the operational commander of the al-Qaeda led insurgency in Iraq. Al-Zarqawi was the public face of the insurgency.
Mike Fitzpatrick

Commander Translations

commander in Afrikaans is kommandant
commander in Dutch is aanvoerder, commandant
commander in German is Befehlshaber
commander in Hungarian is parancsnok
commander in Latin is dux ducis
commander in Portuguese is comandante


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