"Cap'n" meaning in All languages combined

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Cap'ns",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "Cap'n (plural Cap'ns)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "Captain"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
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          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
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        },
        {
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          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
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        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
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      ],
      "examples": [
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              30
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          "ref": "1921 December 25, “BABY WHALE JOINS ITS DAD. So Says Cap'n Edwards, but Amagansett Has Doubts.”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 07 Nov 2025:",
          "text": "The cynical assert that Cap'ns Edwards and Felix and the rest of them don't know a bull whale when they see one, and that the chances are that Father Whale is the missing member of the family.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1992 October 27, Adrian Leftwich, “A serious offence, piracy: When Cap'n Hook vanished one day, Adrian Leftwich investigated”, in The Independent, London: Independent News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 Jul 2022:",
          "text": "HE WAS a fine pirate, in the best piratical tradition, and stood outside our local toy library.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
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          "ref": "2017 May 22, Mike McCahill, “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales review – Cap'n Jack's panto's back”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 May 2017:",
          "text": "Javier Bardem brings an air of mouldering chorizo to this guest-villain role, but the screenplay doesn’t develop the enmity so much as jetski around it, stirring up noisy turbulence – doubtless sensing that the fanbase isn’t here for intricate yarn-spinning, rather the long-awaited/shruggingly tolerated return of Cap’n Jack.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Contraction of Captain."
      ],
      "id": "en-Cap'n-en-noun-tIcAJwSj",
      "links": [
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          "Captain",
          "Captain#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal) Contraction of Captain."
      ],
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        "abbreviation",
        "alt-of",
        "contraction",
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Cap'n"
}

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Cap'ns",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Cap'n (plural Cap'ns)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
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        {
          "word": "Captain"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English contractions",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English informal terms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
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            [
              24,
              30
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          "ref": "1921 December 25, “BABY WHALE JOINS ITS DAD. So Says Cap'n Edwards, but Amagansett Has Doubts.”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 07 Nov 2025:",
          "text": "The cynical assert that Cap'ns Edwards and Felix and the rest of them don't know a bull whale when they see one, and that the chances are that Father Whale is the missing member of the family.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1992 October 27, Adrian Leftwich, “A serious offence, piracy: When Cap'n Hook vanished one day, Adrian Leftwich investigated”, in The Independent, London: Independent News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 Jul 2022:",
          "text": "HE WAS a fine pirate, in the best piratical tradition, and stood outside our local toy library.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              315,
              320
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2017 May 22, Mike McCahill, “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales review – Cap'n Jack's panto's back”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 May 2017:",
          "text": "Javier Bardem brings an air of mouldering chorizo to this guest-villain role, but the screenplay doesn’t develop the enmity so much as jetski around it, stirring up noisy turbulence – doubtless sensing that the fanbase isn’t here for intricate yarn-spinning, rather the long-awaited/shruggingly tolerated return of Cap’n Jack.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Contraction of Captain."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Captain",
          "Captain#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal) Contraction of Captain."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "abbreviation",
        "alt-of",
        "contraction",
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Cap'n"
}