Usually means: Exercising authority or control effectively.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word commanding:

General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. commanding: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. commanding: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. commanding: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. commanding: Collins English Dictionary
  5. commanding: Vocabulary.com
  6. Commanding, commanding: Wordnik
  7. commanding: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. commanding: Wiktionary
  9. commanding: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. commanding: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. commanding: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Commanding, commanding: Dictionary.com
  13. commanding: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Commanding: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. commanding: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. commanding: Rhymezone
  17. Commanding: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. commanding: Free Dictionary
  19. commanding: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. commanding: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. commanding: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. commanding: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. commanding: Medical dictionary

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  1. commanding: Idioms

(Note: See command as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Tending to give commands, authoritarian.
adjective:  Impressively dominant; very good and impressive.
adjective:  Dominating from above, giving a wide view (of a place or position)
noun:  The act of giving a command.

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