1. (n.) The office or rank of a commander.

2. (n.) A district or a manor with lands and tenements appertaining thereto, under the control of a member of an order of knights who was called a commander; -- called also a preceptory.

3. (n.) An assembly or lodge of Knights Templars (so called) among the Freemasons.

4. (n.) A district under the administration of a military commander or governor.