Definitions for commando

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commando com·man·do

Spelling: [kuh-man-doh, -mahn-]

IPA: /kəˈmæn doʊ, -ˈmɑn-/

Commando is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 145 anagrams from letters in commando (acdmmnoo).

Definitions for commando

noun

1. any of the specially trained Allied military units used for surprise, hit-and-run raids against Axis forces. a member of any of these units. Compare ranger (def 3).
2. any military unit organized for operations similar to those of the commandos of World War II.
3. a member of a military assault unit or team trained to operate quickly and aggressively in especially urgent, threatening situations, as against terrorists holding hostages.

Origin of commando

1785-95; Afrikaans kommando raid, raiding party, a unit of militia Portuguese commando unit commanded, noun derivative of commandar to command

Examples for commando

But the most talked-about reward is $10,000 for the capture of a Russian commando.

Yesterday you were on commando with Lotter; your brother was shot and taken by us.

A commando team, on the other hand, will always have to operate quickly to get in, and, it hopes, to get out.

To-day we have returned to commando Nek, at least within a mile or so of it.

But for these infirmities these men would have been on commando with their brother burghers.

Andrey Donskoy is a musician and commando from Krasnoarmeysk, a town in the Donetsk region.

His commando of 113 men was still in the Piet Retief district.

He cannot walk independently—he uses a wheelchair or commando crawls.

We have halted at Rietfontein which is a mile or so from commando Nek.

Now the time for the bombing blitz and commando raids appears to be approaching.