flag captain

1. 1.

   the captain of a flagship

   Broadercaptain

Questions about flag captain

What does flag captain mean?

flag captain means "the captain of a flagship".

Is flag captain a common word?

flag captain is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.