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captaincies

captaincies is the plural of captaincy.

Meaning of captaincy

Noun

captaincy (countable and uncountable, plural captaincies)

  1. The rank or status of a captain.
    Synonyms:
    captainship
  2. The jurisdiction of a captain.
  3. (historical) An administrative division of the former Spanish and Portuguese colonial empires.
    • He obtains a captaincy in the Catalonian army1828, Juan van Halen, Narrative of Don Juan Van Halen's Imprisonment in the Dungeons of the Inquistion at Madrid
    Synonyms:
    capitania

Phrases with captaincies

Questions about captaincies

What is captaincies the plural of?
Captaincies is the plural of captaincy.

Words near captaincies in the dictionary

  1. captain's table
  2. captain's tries
  3. captain's try
  4. captain's walk
  5. captain-lieutenant
  6. captaincies
  7. captaincy
  8. captaine
  9. captained
  10. captaines
  11. captainess

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Adapted from Wiktionary: captaincies (page history and authors); captaincy (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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