Word Meanings - COMMANDANT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A commander; the commanding officer of a place, or of a body of men; as, the commandant of a navy-yard.
Related words: (words related to COMMANDANT)
- PLACEMENT
1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place. - PLACENTARY
Having reference to the placenta; as, the placentary system of classification. - PLACE-KICK
To make a place kick; to make by a place kick. -- Place"-kick`er, n. - COMMANDING
1. Exercising authority; actually in command; as, a commanding officer. 2. Fitted to impress or control; as, a commanding look or presence. 3. Exalted; overlooking; having superior strategic advantages; as, a commanding position. Syn. - COMMANDATORY
Mandatory; as, commandatory authority. - COMMANDO
In South Africa, a military body or command; also, sometimes, an expedition or raid; as, a commando of a hundred Boers. The war bands, called commandos, have played a great part in the . . . military history of the country. James Bryce. - PLACER
One who places or sets. Spenser. - PLACE
Position in the heavens, as of a heavenly body; -- usually defined by its right ascension and declination, or by its latitude and longitude. Place of arms , a place calculated for the rendezvous of men in arms, etc., as a fort which affords a safe - PLACENTA
The vascular appendage which connects the fetus with the parent, and is cast off in parturition with the afterbirth. Note: In most mammals the placenta is principally developed from the allantois and chorion, and tufts of vascular villi - COMMANDEER
To compel to perform military service; to seize for military purposes; -- orig. used of the Boers. 2. To take arbitrary or forcible possession of. - COMMANDMENT
One of the ten laws or precepts given by God to the Israelites at Mount Sinai. 3. The act of commanding; exercise of authority. And therefore put I on the countenance Of stern commandment. Shak. (more info) 1. An order or injunction given - COMMANDINGLY
In a commanding manner. - COMMANDABLE
Capable of being commanded. - COMMANDRY
See COMMANDERY - PLACEMAN
One who holds or occupies a place; one who has office under government. Sir W. Scott. - COMMANDER
An officer who ranks next below a captain, -- ranking with a lieutenant colonel in the army. 3. The chief officer of a commandery. 4. A heavy beetle or wooden mallet, used in paving, in sail lofts, etc. Commander in chief, the military title of - PLACENTIOUS
Pleasing; amiable. "A placentious person." Fuller. - OFFICER
Specifically, a commissioned officer, in distinction from a warrant officer. Field officer, General officer, etc. See under Field, General. etc. -- Officer of the day , the officer who, on a given day, has charge for that day of the quard, - PLACEBO
The first antiphon of the vespers for the dead. - PLACENTIFEROUS
Having or producing a placenta. - REPLACEMENT
The removal of an edge or an angle by one or more planes. (more info) 1. The act of replacing. - COMPLACENCE; COMPLACENCY
1. Calm contentment; satisfaction; gratification. The inward complacence we find in acting reasonably and virtuously. Atterbury. Others proclaim the infirmities of a great man with satisfaction and complacency, if they discover none of the like - APLACENTAL
Belonging to the Aplacentata; without placenta. - DISPLACER
The funnel part of the apparatus for solution by displacement. (more info) 1. One that displaces. - BY-PLACE
A retired or private place. - SELF-COMPLACENCY
The quality of being self-complacent. J. Foster. - MISPLACE
To put in a wrong place; to set or place on an improper or unworthy object; as, he misplaced his confidence.