captain
verb/ˈkæptɪn/
/ˈkæptɪn/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they captain | /ˈkæptɪn/ /ˈkæptɪn/ |
| he / she / it captains | /ˈkæptɪnz/ /ˈkæptɪnz/ |
| past simple captained | /ˈkæptɪnd/ /ˈkæptɪnd/ |
| past participle captained | /ˈkæptɪnd/ /ˈkæptɪnd/ |
| -ing form captaining | /ˈkæptɪnɪŋ/ /ˈkæptɪnɪŋ/ |
- captain something to be a captain of a sports team or a ship
- Ellis is expected to captain the side in next week's friendly against Argentina.
- He played in the West Indies team captained by Clive Lloyd.
- He told us about the ship he had captained during the war.
- She will captain England on their tour to Australia.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryCaptain is used with these nouns as the object:- boat
- side
Word Originlate Middle English (in the general sense ‘chief or leader’): from Old French capitain (superseding earlier chevetaigne ‘chieftain’), from late Latin capitaneus ‘chief’, from Latin caput, capit- ‘head’.
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