POLICE CAPTAIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does police captain mean? 

• POLICE CAPTAIN (noun)
  The noun POLICE CAPTAIN has 1 sense:

1. a policeman in charge of a precinct

  Familiarity information: POLICE CAPTAIN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• POLICE CAPTAIN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A policeman in charge of a precinct

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

captain; police captain; police chief

Hypernyms ("police captain" is a kind of...):

officer; police officer; policeman (a member of a police force)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "police captain"):

Chief Constable (the head of the police force in a county (or similar area))

Instance hyponyms:

Beria; Lavrenti Pavlovich Beria (Soviet chief of secret police under Joseph Stalin; was executed by his associates in the power struggle following Stalin's death (1899-1953))