Word Meanings - COMMANDO - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In South Africa, a military body or command; also, sometimes, an expedition or raid; as, a commando of a hundred Boers. The war bands, called commandos, have played a great part in the . . . military history of the country. James Bryce.

• Expedition
  The quality of being expedite; efficient promptness; haste; dispatch; speed; quickness; as to carry the mail with expedition.
• History
  A learning or knowing by inquiry; the knowledge of facts and events, so obtained; hence, a formal statement of such information; a narrative; a description; a written record; as, the history of a patient's case; the history of a legislative bill.
• Playday
  A day given to play or diversion; a holiday.
• Playwright
  A maker or adapter of plays.
• Southern
  Of or pertaining to the south; situated in, or proceeding from, the south; situated or proceeding toward the south.
• Calligrapher
  One skilled in calligraphy; a good penman.
• Southwardly
  In a southern direction.
• Callose
  Furnished with protuberant or hardened spots.
• COUNTRYSEAT
  A dwelling in the country, used as a place of retirement from the city.
• Commandership
  The office of a commander.
• Commanderies
  of Commandery
• Expeditionary
  Of or pertaining to an expedition; as, an expeditionary force.
• Hundred
  The product of ten mulitplied by ten, or the number of ten times ten; a collection or sum, consisting of ten times ten units or objects; five score. Also, a symbol representing one hundred units, as 100 or C.
• Player
  One who plays, or amuses himself; one without serious aims; an idler; a trifler.
• Playwriter
  A writer of plays; a dramatist; a playwright.
• Southerner
  An inhabitant or native of the south, esp. of the Southern States of North America; opposed to Northerner.
• Calligraphic
  Alt. of Calligraphical
• Southwest
  The point of the compass equally from the south and the west; the southwest part or region.
• Callosities
  of Callosity
• GREATBELLIED
  Having a great belly, bigbellied; pregnant; teeming. Shak.

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