Definition of Commodores

1. Noun. (military nautical) (plural of commodore) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Commodores

1. commodore [n] - See also: commodore

Lexicographical Neighbors of Commodores

commoditize
commoditized
commoditizes
commoditizing
commodity
commodity brokerage
commodity chemical
commodity exchange
commodity exchanges
commodity market
commodity meat
commodo
commodore
commodore admiral
commodore admirals
commodores
common-and-garden
common-eland
common-gull
common-law
common-law(p)
common-law marriage
common-or-garden
common-sense
common-sensical
common-source epidemic
common American shad
common European ash
common European dogwood

Literary usage of Commodores

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Anecdotes of the Revolutionary War in America: With Sketches of Character of by Alexander Garden (1822)
"Commodores AFFLECK AND SWEENEY. WHILE waiting the arrival of General Greene at Philadelphia, I was introduced to the British Commodores Affleck and Sweeney, ..."

2. Diary of Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy Under Lincoln and Johnson by Gideon Welles (1911)
"... attend Grant's Inauguration — The Naval Surgeons seeking to be made Commodores — Death of General Rousseau — The Tenure-of-Office Repeal Bill passes the ..."

3. The War with Mexico by Roswell Sabine Ripley (1849)
"... between Stockton and Kearney—Kearney and Fremont—Arrival of Commodores Shu- brick and Biddle, and Colonel Mason—Trial and Conviction of Fremont. ..."

4. The Historical Register of the United States by Thomas H. Palmer (1816)
"Bombardment of the batteries under commodores Porter and Perry. § 13. Commodore Rod* gers' fire-ships. § 14. Defeat and death of sir Peter Parker. ..."

5. Travels Through Part of the United States and Canada in 1818 and 1819 by John Morison Duncan (1823)
"Respecting public characters I must be equally silent, for none have been pointed out to me except Commodores Decatur 9 and Rodgers. ..."

6. History of the Polk Administration by Lucien Bonaparte Chase (1850)
"Operations of Colonel Fremont and Commodores Sloat and Stockton. Orders issued to raise contributions from the Mexicans.—General Taylor advises the adoption ..."

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