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capt

capt is the abbreviation of captain.

capt is the simple past and past participle of cap.

Meaning of captain

Noun

captain (plural captains)

  1. A chief or leader.
    • For out of the shal come a captaine, whych shall govern my people israhel.1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Matthew ij
  2. The person lawfully in command of a ship or other vessel.
    • Merchants, common sailors, captains of vessels, skippers, […] naval officers of all countries, and the Governments of several states on the two continents, were deeply interested in the matter.1873, Jules Verne, chapter I, in [anonymous], transl., Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Seas; […], James R. Osgood edition, Boston, Mass.: Geo[rge] M[urray] Smith & Co., →OCLC, part I, page 3
  3. An army officer with a rank between the most senior grade of lieutenant and major.
    • "A fine man, that Dunwody, yonder," commented the young captain, as they parted, and as he turned to his prisoner. "We'll see him on in Washington some day. He is strengthening his forces now against Mr. Benton out there.[…]."1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC
  4. A naval officer with a rank between commander and commodore.
  5. 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.
    Synonyms:
    skipper, master, CAPT, Capt., CPT
  6. A rank qualifying an airline pilot to act as pilot in command of a two-pilot flight crew.

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Meaning of cap

Verb

cap (third-person singular simple present caps, present participle capping, simple past and past participle capped)

  1. (transitive) To cover or seal with a cap.
  2. (transitive) To award a cap as a mark of distinction.
  3. (transitive) To lie over or on top of something.
    1. (broadly, slang, transitive) To paint over someone else's piece or tag.
  4. (transitive) To surpass or outdo.
  5. (transitive) To set (or reach) an upper limit on something.
    • to cap wages

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Noun capitalized: Capt

Capt (plural Capts)

  1. (abbreviation) Abbreviation of captain.

Forms of capt

pluralcapts
alternative formcapt.
pluralCapts
alternative formCapt.

Words formed from capt

Questions about capt

What is capt the abbreviation of?
Capt is the abbreviation of captain.
What part of speech is capt?
Capt is a noun.
What is the plural of capt?
The plural of capt is capts.

Words near capt in the dictionary

  1. capsulotome
  2. capsulotomes
  3. capsulotomies
  4. capsulotomy
  5. capsulæ
  6. capt
  7. Capt.
  8. captacula
  9. captaculum
  10. captafol
  11. captagon

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Adapted from Wiktionary: capt (page history and authors); Capt (page history and authors); captain (page history and authors); cap (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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