Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun commodore_perry

1 sense of commodore perry

Sense 1
Perry, Oliver Hazard Perry, Commodore Perry -- (United States commodore who led the fleet that defeated the British on Lake Erie during the War of 1812; brother of Matthew Calbraith Perry (1785-1819))
       INSTANCE OF=> commodore -- (a commissioned naval officer who ranks above a captain and below a rear admiral; the lowest grade of admiral)