captaincy
captaincy noun: the rank or status of a captain.
Noun
captaincy (countable and uncountable, plural captaincies)
- The rank or status of a captain.
- Synonyms:
- captainship
- The jurisdiction of a captain.
- 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
- The territory bathed by this river belongs to the captaincy of Benito Maciel the father.1859, Garcilaso de la Vega, Christóbel de Acuña, Clements Robert Markham, Expeditions Into the Valley of the Amazons
- Synonyms:
- capitania
captaincy meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Telugu
captaincy in Hindi
- कप्तानी
captaincy in Tamil
- தளபதிப் பதவி, மீகான் நிலை, தலைமை, தளபதி அமர்வாணை நிலை
captaincy in Marathi
- कर्णधारपद, कर्णधारपदाची धुरा
captaincy in Telugu
- కెప్టెన్సీ
More languagesFewer languages
- captaincy in Malayalam
- ക്യാപ്റ്റൻസി, ക്യാപ്റ്റൻഷിപ്പ്
- captaincy in Punjabi
- ਕਪਤਾਨੀ
- captaincy in Nepali
- कप्तानी
Synonyms of captaincy
Forms of captaincy
| plural | captaincies |
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Origin of captaincy
From captain + -cy. Piecewise doublet of chieftaincy.
Words formed from captaincy
Questions about captaincy
- What does captaincy mean?
- Captaincy means the rank or status of a captain.
- What is captaincy in Hindi?
- Captaincy in Hindi is कप्तानी. See Captaincy meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is captaincy?
- Captaincy is a noun.
- What is the plural of captaincy?
- The plural of captaincy is captaincies.
Words near captaincy in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: captaincy (page history and authors); captaincy (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); captaincy (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); captaincy (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); captaincy (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); captaincy (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); captaincy (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); captaincy (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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