captaincy en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- (Southern-England) audio
Etymology
From captain + -cy. Piecewise doublet of chieftaincy.
Meanings
- (countable, uncountable) The rank or status of a captain.
- (countable, uncountable) The jurisdiction of a captain.
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(countable, historical, uncountable) An administrative division of the former Spanish and Portuguese colonial empires.
The territory bathed by this river belongs to the captaincy of Benito Maciel the father.
1859, Garcilaso de la Vega, Christóbel de Acuña, Clements Robert Markham, Expeditions Into the Valley of the Amazons:He obtains a captaincy in the Catalonian army
1828, Juan van Halen, Narrative of Don Juan Van Halen's Imprisonment in the Dungeons of the Inquistion at Madrid:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| captaincies | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
subcaptaincy · donatary captaincy · cocaptaincy
Synonyms
Translations (9)
fr capitanat (rank or status of a captain) · af kapteinskap (rank or status of a captain) · sw ukapteni (rank or status of a captain) · ca capitania (rank or status of a captain) · pt capitania (administrative division) · ca capitania (administrative division) · bg капитанство (administrative division) · es capitanía (rank or status of a captain) · bg капитанство (rank or status of a captain)