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(British) an officer ranking next below a lieutenant
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sublieutenant
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Midshipman \Mid"ship`man\, n.; pl. Midshipmen . Formerly, a kind of naval cadet, in a ship of war, whose business was to carry orders, messages, reports, etc., between the officers of the quarter-deck and those of the forecastle, and render other services ...
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n. (alternative form of sub-lieutenant English)
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Word definitions in WordNet
n. an officer ranking next below a lieutenant
Usage examples of sublieutenant.
Venizelou left the room, and the sublieutenant looked back at the monk.
The sublieutenant was followed by the warrant, the orange robed guru and two of the enlisted men who were off-duty.
Hayter and the sublieutenant were checking the efficiency of each component manually, with multi-meters.
Halloran, Sublieutenant Henderson, Midshipmen Turnbull and Waldegrave.
The sublieutenant spurred toward him with a pennon-bearer at his side.
The Kullvordi commander had arrested the sergeant and corporal of each squad and had them flogged in front of their victims, then hanged their sublieutenant and platoon sergeant from a tree by the road, their ranks conspicuous on their tunics.
Sula raised her glass to the newly commissioned Sublieutenant Lord Jeremy Foote, and toasted his good fortune.
Ryan followed him to the island and was met by an ensigna sublieutenant, the British call the rank.
The sublieutenant stood by as Ryan unzipped and took off his helmet, Mae West, and coverall.
White dismissed the sublieutenant, who handed Jack his bag before withdrawing.
The sublieutenant was working the FLIR package, which was sweeping left and right over their course track.
He had been a sublieutenant in the Zouaves, was tall and thin and as hard as steel, and during the whole campaign he had cut out their work for the Germans.
Finally, he turned to his assistant, Sublieutenant Roux, a wiry, swarthy fellow from Blue Lake.
The arrow fire ceased, after minutes, when some sublieutenant gave the order.
Gonsalos, he raised both the asking-price and the other requirements for ensigns, sublieutenants, troop-lieutenants, senior lieutenant and sub-captain, after first buying back the ranks of those few men who did not or could not work with or under him, and even so, hardly the day passed but that he found himself approached by top-notch officers or one time officers or wellborn young men, all clearly eager to lay their credentials and money before him.