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# captain

«captain» in Mova's school dictionary: **The person in charge of a ship or an aeroplane** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a captain, captains); verb (captain, captains, captained, captaining)

### meaning for a pupil

1) The person in charge of a ship or an aeroplane. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/captain/#m1)

2) The leader of a sports team. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/captain/#m2)

3) An officer in the army, navy or police. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/captain/#m3)

4) (verb) To lead a team or a ship. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/captain/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In school sport, the team captain leads the players and talks to the referee. In stories, a ship's captain gives orders and is responsible for everyone on board. On planes, the captain is the chief pilot. Phrases: «team captain», «ship's captain», «Captain Hook».

### examples

- Mia is the captain of our netball team. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/captain/#x1)
- The captain steered the ship through the storm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/captain/#x2)
- «This is your captain speaking,» said the pilot. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/captain/#x3)
- Captain Hook is the pirate in «Peter Pan». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/captain/#x4)
- Who will captain the team this year? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/captain/#x5)
- The captain was the last to leave the sinking ship. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/captain/#x6)
- Our class captain helps the teacher. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/captain/#x7)
- The captain was in great fright. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/captain/#x8)

### note

As a title it takes a capital letter: Captain Smith. Countable: captains. The leader of a school house or class may also be called a captain, especially in the UK and Australia.

### In the corpora

- [A bossy captain isn't a good one, and you are allowed to leave a game that has stopped being fun.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/405-teams-and-voice-chat/19/)
- [Max in Sydney promised «no homework ever» if he became class captain.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/442-politicians-and-promises-as-the-news-reports-them/20/)
- [He won, homework continued — a captain has no power over homework.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/442-politicians-and-promises-as-the-news-reports-them/21/)
- [The captains still shake hands, as the rules say.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/472-rival-teams-and-the-older-bully/1/)
- [Imagine having two class captains who must agree on everything: neither can boss everyone around.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/13-rome-from-seven-hills-to-a-republic/5/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «captain» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/captain/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.