Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Having command; controlling.
- adj. Dominating, as by magnitude or position: took a commanding lead at the polls; a commanding view of the ocean.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Directing with authority; invested with authority; governing; bearing rule; exercising authority: as, a commanding officer.
- Of great or controlling importance; powerful; paramount: as, commanding influence.
- Dominating; overlooking a wide region without obstruction: as, a commanding eminence.
- Pertaining to or characteristic of a commander, or of one born or fitted to command; characterized by great dignity; compelling respect, deference, obedience, etc.: as, a man of commanding address; commanding eloquence.
- Imperious; domineering.
Wiktionary
- v. Present participle of to command.
- adj. tending to give commands, authoritarian
- adj. impressively dominant
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Exercising authority; actually in command.
- adj. Fitted to impress or control.
- adj. Exalted; overlooking; having superior strategic advantages.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. used of a height or viewpoint
Examples
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“Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the top allied commander in Kabul, made his name commanding similar special-operations forces in Iraq and sending them after hundreds of key insurgent and al Qaeda figures.”
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“Santa Clara, the last big city before Havana on the old national highway, is where an Argentine doctor named Ernesto Guevara made his name commanding the guerrilla army that was closest to the capital when Batista fled.”
“The New Testament scriptures aren't very moderate or tolerant, but they do teach the moderation is gentleness, and in commanding gentleness, it seems not to be very tolerant.”
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“Here stood the Captain commanding the company with half a dozen men.”
“But Sampras conceded little to his teammate calling Roddick his "rival" in commanding top billing in the best-of-five match, three-day event.”
“But that was about as likely as his calling his commanding general Bobby-Ray back when he'd been Second Lieutenant John P. Ryan, USMC.”
“As a former senior Japanese official observed: There is a word for commanding heights in Japanese, at”
“As a former senior Japanese official observed: “There is a word for commanding heights in Japanese, at least up through the 1970s, and that is MITI.””
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