Captain

Captain (plural Captains)

1. An army officer title in most countries.
2. The title for someone who holds the captain job on a ship or other vessel.

   These islands were discovered by Captain Cook.

   • 1906, Ida Lee, The Coming of the British to Australia, 1788 to 1829, Longmans, Green, and Co., page 100:

     […] the governor, convinced of the need of a thorough exploration of the south coast, now ordered Grant to return and carefully survey the bay between Cape Otway and Cape Schank, besides the land which had been seen by Captains Black and Buyers, then to sail to King George’s Sound and, in returning, to explore the whole south coast to Wilson’s Promontory, going to the head of every bay or inlet as far as possible.

• anti-cap, capitan, patican