commandonoun [ C ]
uk/kəˈmɑːn.dəʊ/us/kəˈmæn.doʊ/plural commandos or commandoesa soldier who is specially trained to make attacks on enemy areas that are very dangerous or difficult to attack:
He was an experienced commando with 13 years in the Special Forces.
a small group of soldiers that are specially trained to make attacks on enemy areas that are very dangerous or difficult to attack:
Trevor volunteered for Special Service and joined 1 Commando.
More examples
- The mission would have been more appropriately carried out by military commandos.
- a gathering of special operations commandos at Fort Bragg
- John was the commando team's No. 2 as well as its medic.
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Soldiers & people who fight in wars
- Anzac
- capability
- combatant
- crusader
- guardsman
- gunner
- infantryman
- lancer
- non-combatant
- orderly
- para
- partisan
- sentry
- sepoy
- serviceman
- shogun
- soldier
- storm trooper
- vet
- veteran
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Parts of armies & groups of servicemen
Examples from literature
- Did your commando lose many men? I asked my companion.
- He himself also was going home, but would return after a few weeks, as a large commando, led if possible by himself, was to invade Cape Colony.
- The majority of the Americans spent the first months of the war in Boer commandos, and made no effort to establish an organisation of their own, although they were of sufficient numerical strength.
- They explained that they belonged to the commando which had been lying here, and which only the day before had retired on the approach of the enemy.
- They joined commandos and remained under Boer leaders during the entire campaign.
Idiom(s)
go commando