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Definition: WORD OF COMMAND |
WORD OF COMMAND1. (Mil.), a word or phrase of definite and established meaning, used in directing the movements of soldiers; as, aim ; fire ; shoulder arms , etc. Syn: Control; sway; power; authority; rule; dominion; sovereignty; mandate; order; injunction; charge; behest. See Direction . |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Command | Issue a command; make a requisition, issue a requisition, promulgate a requisition, make a decree, issue a decree, promulgate a decree, make an order, issue an order, promulgate an order; Noun: give the word of command, give the word, give the signal; call to order; give the law, lay down the law; assume the command; (authority); remand. |
Dictation; dictate, mandate; caveat, decree, senatus consultum; precept; prescript, rescript; writ, ordination, bull, ex cathedra pronouncement, edict, decretal, dispensation, prescription, brevet, placit, ukase, ukaz, firman, hatti-sherif, warrant, passport, mittimus, mandamus, summons, subpoena, nisi prius, interpellation, citation; word, word of command; mot d'ordre; bugle call, trumpet call; beat of drum, tattoo; order of the day; enactment; (law); plebiscite; (choice). | |
Indication | Word of command, call; bugle call, trumpet call; bell, alarum, cry; battle cry, rallying cry; angelus; reveille; sacring bell, sanctus bell. |
Warfare | Battle, tug of war; (contention); service, campaigning, active service, tented field; kriegspiel, Kriegsspiel; fire cross, trumpet, clarion, bugle, pibroch, slogan; war-cry, war-whoop; battle cry, beat of drum, rappel, tom-tom; calumet of war; word of command; password, watchword; passage d-armes. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | I have seen this whole body of horse, upon a word of command, draw their swords at once, and brandish them in the air. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Translations for "WORD OF COMMAND"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Czech | rozkaz (bidding, command, mandate, word), povel (command). (various references) | ||||||||||
Finnish | komentosana. (various references) | ||||||||||
Hungarian | parancsszó (dictate, word). (various references) | ||||||||||
Manx | fockle yn sarey. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | ordway ofay ommandcay komut, emir (ameer, amir, behest, bidding, charge, command, commandment, decree, dictate, dictation, direction, disposal, disposition, emir, fiat, imperatival, imperative, jussive, mandate, order, precept, prescription, ukase, word). (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-d-f-m-m-n-o-o-o-r-w" | |
-5 letters: commando, cordwood, moonward. | |
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