NAVAL COMMANDER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does naval commander mean? 

• NAVAL COMMANDER (noun)
  The noun NAVAL COMMANDER has 1 sense:

1. naval officer in command of a fleet of warships

  Familiarity information: NAVAL COMMANDER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NAVAL COMMANDER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Naval officer in command of a fleet of warships

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("naval commander" is a kind of...):

naval officer (an officer in the navy)

Domain category:

armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)

Instance hyponyms:

John Paul Jones; Jones (American naval commander in the American Revolution (1747-1792))