different between chairman vs commander

English

Etymology

From chair +? -man

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?t???m?n/

Noun

chairman (plural chairmen)

1. A person presiding over a meeting.
2. The head of a corporate or governmental board of directors, a committee, or other formal entity.
3. (historical) Someone whose job is to carry people in a portable chair, sedan chair, or similar conveyance.

Usage notes

• Historically this term denoted a man, but it is now also used for women. Gender-neutral terms could be chairperson or just chair.

Coordinate terms

• chairwoman

Hypernyms

• chair, chairperson
• presiding officer, presider

Derived terms

• vice chairman, vice-chairman
• cochairman

Translations

Verb

chairman (third-person singular simple present chairmans, present participle chairmanning, simple past and past participle chairmanned)

1. To serve as chairman.

Anagrams

• Charmian

English

Etymology

From Middle English comaundour, commaunder, comaunder, borrowed from Old French comandeor, cumandeur, from comander. See command.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /k??mænd?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /k??m??nd?/
• (Northern England) IPA^(key): /k??mand?/

Noun

commander (plural commanders)

1. One who exercises control and direction of a military or naval organization.
2. A naval officer whose rank is above that of a lieutenant commander and below that of captain.
3. One who exercises control and direction over a group of persons.
4. A designation or rank in certain non-military organizations such as NASA and various police forces.
5. (obsolete) The chief officer of a commandry.
6. A heavy beetle or wooden mallet, used in paving, in sail lofts, etc.
7. A rank within an honorary order: e.g. Commander of the Legion of Honour.
8. Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the Asian genus Moduza.

Derived terms

• commanderless
• commanderlike
• commanderly

Translations

French

Etymology

From Old French comander, from Vulgar Latin *command?re, from Latin commend?re, present active infinitive of commend?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?.m??.de/
• Homophones: commandai, commandé, commandée, commandées, commandés, commandez

Verb

commander

1. to order (tell someone to do something)
2. to order (ask for a product)

Conjugation

Derived terms

• commandeur
• commandement

Related terms

• commande

Descendants

• ? Romanian: comanda

Further reading

• “commander” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).