Meanings
plural commandos · plural commandoes
- A small fighting force specially trained for making quick destructive raids against enemy-held areas.
The most important objective was at Batna itself, where a group of three commandos each comprising ten men was to attack Deleplanque's sub-prefecture […].
1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York: Review Books, published 2006, page 89 - A commando trooper.
Ben Grant, 30, who spent more than five years as a commando in the Royal Marines, is part of group of seven ex-servicemen who arrived in Ukraine over the weekend to fight invading Russian forces.
2022 March 8, “Tory MP’s son among UK ex-servicemen heading to Ukrainian front line”, in the GuardianSynonyms: commandoman
- historicalAn organized force of Boer troops in South Africa; a raid by such troops.
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA commando trooper.
More synonyms by meaning
nouna member of a military unit trained as shock troops for hit-and-run raids
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Latincommendare
- Late Latin*commandare
- Portuguesecomando“command”
- Afrikaanskommando
- Englishcommando
From Afrikaans kommando, from Portuguese comando (“command”), from Late Latin *commandare, from Latin commendare.
More words from Afrikaans, Portuguese, Late Latin
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Bulgarian отряд, команда
- отряд (otrjad)small fighting force
- команда (komanda)small fighting force
Catalan comando
- comandosmall fighting force
Chinese Mandarin 特种兵, 特种兵
- 特种兵 (tèzhǒngbīng)small fighting force
- 特种兵 (tèzhǒngbīng)commando trooper
Czech komando
- komandosmall fighting force
Dutch commando
- commandosmall fighting force
Esperanto kommando, kommandano
- kommandosmall fighting force
- kommandanocommando trooper
Finnish sissipartio, sissi
- sissipartiosmall fighting force
- sissicommando trooper
French commando
- commandosmall fighting force
German Kommando, Kommandosoldat
- Kommandosmall fighting force
- Kommandosoldatcommando trooper
Greek δύναμη καταδρομών, κομάντο
- δύναμη καταδρομών (dýnami katadromón)small fighting force
- κομάντο (kománto)commando trooper
- καταδρομέας (katadroméas)commando trooper
Indonesian komando
- komandosmall fighting force
Japanese 特戦隊
- 特戦隊 (tokusentai)small fighting force
Māori konihi, torohē
- konihismall fighting force
- torohēsmall fighting force
- whakatokesmall fighting force
- hōia torohēcommando trooper
- hōia konihicommando trooper
Norwegian Bokmål kommandosoldat
- kommandosoldatcommando trooper
Persian کماندو
- کماندو (komândo)small fighting force
Polish komando, komandos
- komandosmall fighting force
- komandoscommando trooper
- komandoskacommando trooper
Spanish comando, escuadrón tipo comando
- comandosmall fighting force
- escuadrón tipo comandosmall fighting force
- tropa tipo comandocommando trooper
Swedish kommandostyrka, kommandosoldat
- kommandostyrkasmall fighting force
- kommandosoldatcommando trooper
Turkish komando, komando
- komandosmall fighting force
- komandocommando trooper
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with commando
All rhymes →Cite this entry
commando. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/commando
“commando.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/commando. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “commando,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/commando.
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