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A commissioned military officer
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lieutenant
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES first lieutenant flight lieutenant second lieutenant COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE young ▪ There was a-small desk beside a narrow bed and the young lieutenant , Benson, sat at it. ▪ I opened the door as a young ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "one who takes the place of another," from Old French lieu tenant "substitute, deputy," literally "placeholder," from lieu "place" (see lieu ) + tenant , present participle of tenir "to hold" (see tenant ). The notion is of a "substitute" for ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lieutenant \Lieu*ten"ant\ (l[-u]*t[e^]n"ant), n. [F., fr. lieu place + tenant holding, p. pr. of tenir to hold, L. tenere. See Lieu , and Tenant , and cf. Locum tenens .] An officer who supplies the place of a superior in his absence; a representative of, ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. A military grade that is junior to the grade the adjective modifies: ''lieutenant colonel'', ''lieutenant general'', ''lieutenant commander''. n. 1 (context military English) The lowest commissioned officer rank or ranks in many military forces. 2 # ...
Usage examples of lieutenant.
There were few officers aboard the Endymion who turned a blind eye, but when it came to a zealous pursuit of duty, the first lieutenant was the worst.
Barbarian chiefs, alarmed and admonished by the fate of their companions, prepared to encounter, in a decisive battle, the victorious forces of the lieutenant of Valentinian.
Thereupon the Baron des Adrets, the Huguenot commander in that region, sent one of his lieutenants, Dupuy-Montbrun, to avenge that deviltry.
Lieutenant Kurt and the Chinese aeronaut and a dead cow, and much other uncongenial company, in the huge circle of the Whirlpool two and a quarter miles away.
What time is that naval lieutenant coming to look over the Prescott aeroplane, Peggy?
Sidney Huff and a lieutenant colonel carrying a briefcase and wearing the aiguillette of an aide-de-camp came in and stood by the door.
Flight Lieutenant Alfred Mug-geridge, bomb aimer in a 156 Squadron Lancaster shot down that night near Magdeburg, describes how his aircraft was attacked by a night fighter.
Staff Sergeant Alphonse Marks, Lieutenant Charles Akers, and Lieutenant Megan Swigart.
Lieutenant Akers saw you put one under that rover, and my guess was that you took the opportunity once you were inside the habitat to bury a few more.
Sasaki gagged the lieutenant with the ripped-up T-shirt Akers and Marks had used to bind their fists.
For the next four hours, Pacino kept the watch with an annoyed Lieutenant Alameda and the lookout behind them, who had his own cubbyhole hatch coming out of the sail.
Lieutenant Alameda, in submarine coveralls under a Naval Academy sweatshirt, sat at the desk near the beds.
Lieutenant Carolyn Alameda waited for her pulse to slow, the wait a long, irritable one.
Now came the trial, with the captain and the XO and Lieutenant Alameda all watching him.
And Lieutenant Alameda, her normally sour expression gone, was actually beautiful when she allowed herself to smile.