command

1. 1.

   be in command of

   “The general commanded a huge army”

   Broaderdominate

   Narrowergeneralofficer
2. 2.

   make someone do something

   Synonymsrequire

   Broaderorder

   Narrowerchargerequisitionforbid
3. 3.

   demand as one's due

   “This speaker commands a high fee”

   “The author commands a fair hearing from his readers”

   Broaderdemand
4. 4.

   look down on

   “The villa dominates the town”

   Synonymsdominateoverlookovertop

   Broaderlie

   Narrowershadow
5. 5.

   exercise authoritative control or power over

   “control the budget”

   “Command the military forces”

   Synonymscontrol

   Narrowerpreoccupysteerhold one's ownmanageinternationalizeholdhold swaygovernregiment

Other forms of command

plural

commands·

past tense

commanded·

present participle

commanding·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about command

What does command mean?

command means "an authoritative direction or instruction to do something". That is the primary sense; the word has 12 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in command?

command has 2 syllables: com-mand. The stress falls on "mand". In IPA it is /kəˈmænd/.

What is another word for command?

Close synonyms include bid, bidding, dictation, control, mastery. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is command a common word?

command is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with command?

6 words rhyme with command. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.