captain:
(shortened form: CAPT or Capt.; plural: ‘captains‘; pronunciation: the letter ‘c’ is said with a ‘k’ as in “king”)
a US Naval captain
the leader of a team or group; a boss;
an officer in command of a ship, aircraft or a troop of soldiers in the Army;
an officer in some police forces;
an officer in charge of a merchant (not military) ship or aeroplane;
a female police captain
the leader of a team of players in sports;
a senior employee who supervises, guides or instructs a staff of junior employees;
a dinning-room senior attendant in charge of the waiters/waitresses, and the seating arrangements of the customers in a large restaurant,
Juan Escarre, Spanish hockey team captain
The captain of the ship used his common sense rather than follow the thumb rules and saved the ship and the passengers.
Miller is elected captain of our football team.
After finishing high school, Kareem ran away from home, joined the Army and, after some years, returned home as an Army captain.
It is customary for the captain of every passenger flight to greet and announce the flight plan to the passengers over a public address system from the cockpit.
