captained

as inmanage
as innavigate
as inoversee
as insail
as insteer
as ingovern

Synonyms for captained

verb be in charge, control

Antonyms for captained

Word Origin & History

late 14c., capitayn, "a leader, chief, one who stands at the head of others," from Old French capitaine "captain, leader," from Late Latin capitaneus "chief," noun use of adjective capitaneus "prominent, chief," from Latin caput (genitive capitis) "head" (see capitulum).

Military sense of "officer who commands a company" (rank between major and lieutenant) is from 1560s; naval sense of "officer who commands a man-of-war" is from 1550s, extended to "master or commander of a vessel of any kind" by 1704. Sporting sense is first recorded 1823.

Example Sentences for captained

Battalions of the accursed, captained by pallid data that I have exhumed, will march.

They were captained by one Smith, known as "Soapy," whom I had the fortune to meet.

Remember the leap to death and the Boat of Ra, and those by whom it was captained.

His enemies assert that he turned brigand, and captained a band of desperadoes.

Ive captained a better team than this school will ever turn out!

It was owned and captained by a conte, who also collected the fares.

And there must be something in the son of a man who had captained Somerset.

Two years later, when he captained the Wrykyn teams, he made a lot of runs.

Goldberg captained his ward, which was one of Shaughnessy's gilt-edged assets.

For if Strawn needed his help, Dundee needed the expert machinery which Strawn captained.