Subaltern

[sәb'ɒ:ltәn]

Definition

(noun.) a British commissioned army officer below the rank of captain.

Edited by Henry--From WordNet

Definition

(a.) Ranked or ranged below; subordinate; inferior; specifically (Mil.), ranking as a junior officer; being below the rank of captain; as, a subaltern officer.

(a.) Asserting only a part of what is asserted in a related proposition.

(n.) A person holding a subordinate position; specifically, a commissioned military officer below the rank of captain.

(n.) A subaltern proposition.

Edited by Leah

Synonyms and Synonymous

a. Inferior, subordinate.

Typist: Theodore

Definition

adj. inferior: subordinate.—n. a subordinate: an officer in the army under the rank of captain: (logic) a specific class as included under a general one or a particular statement as deducible from a universal one.—adjs. Subalter′nant universal as opposed to particular; Subalter′nate succeeding by turns: subordinate.—n. a particular proposition or a species as opposed to a universal proposition or a genus.—n. Subalternā′tion.

Checker: Sherman