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Subaltern

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Noun

1. subaltern

a British commissioned army officer below the rank of captain

Adjective

2. junior-grade, lower-ranking, lowly, petty, secondary, subaltern

inferior in rank or status

Example Sentences:
'the junior faculty'
'a lowly corporal'
'petty officialdom'
'a subordinate functionary'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Subaltern

see synonyms of subaltern
noun
1. 
a commissioned officer below the rank of captain in certain armies, esp the British
2. 
a person of inferior rank or position
3. logic
a. 
the relation of one proposition to another when the first is implied by the second, esp the relation of a particular to a universal proposition
b. 
(as modifier)
a subaltern relation
adjective
4. 
of inferior position or rank

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Subaltern

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adjective
1. 
subordinate; of lower rank
2.  British
holding an army commission below that of captain
3. 
in traditional logic, particular, with reference to a universal proposition of which it is part
noun
4. 
a subordinate
5.  British
a subaltern officer
6. 
a subaltern proposition in logic

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Subaltern

see synonyms of subaltern
n.
1. A person who is lower in position or rank; a subordinate.
2.
a. A person who is marginalized and oppressed by the dominant culture, especially in a colonial context.
b. Such people considered as a group.
3. Chiefly British An officer holding a military rank just below that of captain.
4. Logic A particular proposition that follows from a universal with the same subject, predicate, and quality.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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