COMMISSIONED NAVAL OFFICER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does commissioned naval officer mean? 

• COMMISSIONED NAVAL OFFICER (noun)
  The noun COMMISSIONED NAVAL OFFICER has 1 sense:

1. a commissioned officer in the navy

  Familiarity information: COMMISSIONED NAVAL OFFICER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COMMISSIONED NAVAL OFFICER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A commissioned officer in the navy

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("commissioned naval officer" is a kind of...):

commissioned officer (a military officer holding a commission)

Domain category:

armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "commissioned naval officer"):

ensign (a person who holds a commissioned rank in the United States Navy or the United States Coast Guard; below lieutenant junior grade)

captain; skipper (the naval officer in command of a military ship)

commander (a commissioned naval officer who ranks above a lieutenant commander and below a captain)

commodore (a commissioned naval officer who ranks above a captain and below a rear admiral; the lowest grade of admiral)

flag officer (a senior naval officer above the rank of captain)

lieutenant (an officer holding a commissioned rank in the United States Navy or the United States Coast Guard; below lieutenant commander and above lieutenant junior grade)

lieutenant commander (a commissioned officer in the Navy ranking above a lieutenant and below a commander)

lieutenant JG; lieutenant junior grade (an officer holding a commissioned rank in the United States Navy or United States Coast Guard; below lieutenant and above ensign)