command

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   availability for use

   the materials at the command of the potters grew

2. 2
   noun

   the power or authority to command

   an admiral in command

3. 3
   noun

   great skillfulness and knowledge of some subject or activity

   a good command of French

4. 4
   noun

   a position of highest authority

   the corporation has just undergone a change in command

5. 5
   verb

   to make someone do something

   The officer commanded the soldiers to do one hundred press-ups.

6. 6
   verb

   to be in command of

   The general commanded a huge army.

7. 7
   verb

   to demand as one's due

   This speaker commands a high fee

8. 8
   noun

   An order to do something.

   I was given a command to cease shooting.

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Proto-Indo-European *(s)meh₂-der. Proto-Italic *manus Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- Proto-Indo-European *dʰéh₁tder. Proto-Italic *-ðō Proto-Italic *manuðō Latin mandō Latin commendō ▲ Latin mandōinflu. Latin commandāre Old French comanderbor. Middle English comaunden English command From Middle English commanden, commaunden, comaunden, comanden, from Old French comander, from Late Latin commandāre, from Latin commendāre. Ultimately from Latin com- + mandō (whence ultimately also commen…