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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The office or dignity of a commander.
  • noun A district under the authority or administration of a commander.
  • noun A house, technically called a cell, in which the domain-rents of a medieval commandery were received, and which also served as a home for veteran members of the order. It was sometimes fortified, and occasionally formed an extensive and formidable stronghold.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete The office or rank of a commander.
  • noun A district or a manor with lands and tenements appertaining thereto, under the control of a member of an order of knights who was called a commander; -- called also a preceptory.
  • noun United States An assembly or lodge of Knights Templars (so called) among the Freemasons.
  • noun rare A district under the administration of a military commander or governor.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun US Obsolete spelling of commandry.
  • noun historical an historical administrative level of China, the .

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the position or office of commander

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