One who holds an office; a person lawfully invested with an office, whether civil, military, or ecclesiastical; as, a church officer; a police officer; a staff officer.
These links were deliberately created. Use the interchangeability score and guidance to judge whether a word will work in your sentence.
A helper; an assistant.
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
A nickname for a policeman; -- from Sir Robert Peel, who remodeled the police force. See Peeler.
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
The male of any species of cattle (Bovidae); hence, the male of any large quadruped, as the elephant; also, the male of the whale.
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
A head, or chief officer
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
A commander; the commanding officer of a place, or of a body of men; as, the commandant of a navy-yard.
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
A chief; one who has supreme authority; a leader; the chief officer of an army, or of any division of it.
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
A high officer in the monarchical establishments of the Middle Ages.
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
The top of a thing; the head; a crest.
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
A common metal of a reddish color, both ductile and malleable, and very tenacious. It is one of the best conductors of heat and electricity. Symbol C…
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
Fitted for, or skilled in, detecting; employed in detecting crime or criminals; as, a detective officer.
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
To make drunk.
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
One of a body of heavy cavalry.
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
One who inspects, views, or oversees; one to whom the supervision of any work is committed; one who makes an official view or examination, as a milit…
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
One who searches diligently into a subject.
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
A vessel having (so many) masts; -- used only in compounds; as, a two-master.
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
The Paraguay tea, being the dried leaf of the Brazilian holly (Ilex Paraguensis). The infusion has a pleasant odor, with an agreeable bitter taste, a…
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
One who navigates or sails; esp., one who direct the course of a ship, or one who is skillful in the art of navigation; also, a book which teaches th…
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
A piggin.
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
A member of a body of police; a constable.
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
An armed private vessel which bears the commission of the sovereign power to cruise against the enemy. See Letters of marque, under Marque.
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
An officer or seaman of a privateer.
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
A commissioned officer in the navy who had charge of the provisions, clothing, and public moneys on shipboard; -- now called paymaster.
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
The captain of a vessel that sails upon the sea.
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
One who, or that which, skips.
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
A man employed in a large family, or on a large estate, to manage the domestic concerns, supervise other servants, collect the rents or income, keep…
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
An officer or person in a merchant ship, whose duty is to manage the sales, and superintend the commercial concerns, of the voyage.
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
A soldier in a body of cavalry; a cavalryman; also, the horse of a cavalryman.
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.
To order with authority; to lay injunction upon; to direct; to bid; to charge.
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a broader lexical category for at least one sense.
One charged with the performance of a function or office; as, a public functionary; secular functionaries.
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a broader lexical category for at least one sense.
Same as Goaf.
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a broader lexical category for at least one sense.
One who is employed in the hold of a vessel.
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a broader lexical category for at least one sense.
A large tree, the Artocarpus integrifolia, common in the East Indies, closely allied to the breadfruit, from which it differs in having its leaves en…
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a broader lexical category for at least one sense.
One whose occupation is to assist in navigating ships; a seaman or sailor.
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a broader lexical category for at least one sense.
Of or pertaining to an office or public trust; as, official duties, or routine.
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a broader lexical category for at least one sense.
The dogfish.
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a broader lexical category for at least one sense.
One who follows the sea as a business; a mariner; a sailor.
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a broader lexical category for at least one sense.
A merman; the male of the mermaid.
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a broader lexical category for at least one sense.
A sailor; a seaman.
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a broader lexical category for at least one sense.
Of or pertaining to constables; consisting of constables.
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a containing group, substance or whole.
In general, a rule of being or of conduct, established by an authority able to enforce its will; a controlling regulation; the mode or order accordin…
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a containing group, substance or whole.
A judicial and executive system, for the government of a city, town, or district, for the preservation of rights, order, cleanliness, health, etc., a…
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a containing group, substance or whole.
An officer, particularly one in the civil service; a placeman.
Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.
Their definitions overlap or refer to similar ideas. Use these to widen your search, then compare the exact meanings.
The same nine destinations available from the header menu are shown here as a clear, fully visible grid.