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SKIPPER

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The naval officer in command of a military ship

Synonyms:

captain; skipper

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("skipper" is a kind of...):

commissioned naval officer (a commissioned officer in the navy)

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 "skipper"):

flag captain (the captain of a flagship)

Derivation:

skipper (work as the skipper on a vessel)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An officer who is licensed to command a merchant ship

Synonyms:

captain; master; sea captain; skipper

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("skipper" is a kind of...):

officer; ship's officer (a person authorized to serve in a position of authority on a vessel)

Instance hyponyms:

Captain Kidd; Kidd; William Kidd (Scottish sea captain who was hired to protect British shipping in the Indian Ocean and then was accused of piracy and hanged (1645-1701))

Derivation:

skipper (work as the skipper on a vessel)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A student who fails to attend classes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("skipper" is a kind of...):

educatee; pupil; student (a learner who is enrolled in an educational institution)

Derivation:

skip (intentionally fail to attend)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Work as the skipper on a vessel

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "skipper" is one way to...):

work (exert oneself by doing mental or physical work for a purpose or out of necessity)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

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

skipper (an officer who is licensed to command a merchant ship)

Credits

 Context examples: 

Only one man knew what had happened to him, and that was me, for, with my own eyes, I saw the skipper tip up his heels and put him over the rail in the middle watch of a dark night, two days before we sighted the Shetland Lights.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He was employed in a vague personal capacity—while he remained with Cody he was in turn steward, mate, skipper, secretary, and even jailor, for Dan Cody sober knew what lavish doings Dan Cody drunk might soon be about and he provided for such contingencies by reposing more and more trust in Gatsby.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)