Usually means: Leader in charge of team.
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We found 47 dictionaries that define the word captain:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. captain: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. captain: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. captain: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. captain: Collins English Dictionary
  5. captain: Vocabulary.com
  6. Captain, captain: Wordnik
  7. captain: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Captain, captain: Wiktionary
  9. captain: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. captain: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. captain: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Captain, captain: Dictionary.com
  13. captain: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. captain: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  16. Captain: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. captain: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. captain: Rhymezone
  19. captain: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. captain: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Captain: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. captain: Free Dictionary
  23. captain: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. captain: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. captain: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  26. Captain (D), Captain (NOAA), Captain (BARM): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. CAPTAIN: Band Terms

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. captain: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. baby names list (No longer online)
  3. CAPTAIN, CAPTAIN, CAPTAIN: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words
  4. CAPTAIN: Acronym Finder
  5. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  6. captain: Idioms

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Captain: Easton Bible
  2. Captain: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Captain (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. captain: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  3. The Captain: Urban Dictionary

Sports (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Captain: Backgammon
  2. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  3. Captain: Bicycle Glossary
  4. Captain: Sports Definitions

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

(Note: See captaincy as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A chief or leader.
noun:  The person lawfully in command of a ship or other vessel.
noun:  An army officer with a rank between the most senior grade of lieutenant and major.
noun:  A naval officer with a rank between commander and commodore.
noun:  A commissioned officer in the United States Navy, Coast Guard, NOAA Corps, or PHS Corps of a grade superior to a commander and junior to a rear admiral (lower half). A captain is equal in grade or rank to a United States Army, Marine Corps, or Air Force colonel.
noun:  One of the athletes on a sports team who is designated to make decisions, and is allowed to speak for his team with a referee or official.
noun:  The leader of a group of workers.
noun:  The head boy of a school.
noun:  A maître d', a headwaiter.
noun:  (Southern US) An honorific title given to a prominent person. See colonel.
verb:  (intransitive) To act as captain
verb:  (transitive) To exercise command of a ship, aircraft or sports team.
noun:  The honorific of a captain, especially a ship's captain or a person with the military rank of captain.
noun:  (before a descriptive word or phrase) Forms a title for a superhero seen as embodying or possessing in high degree the qualities associated with the ensuing phrase
noun:  (humorous or ironic) (by extension, from the superhero sense) Forms a title or nickname for a person; typically a nonce coinage

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