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subaltern
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Of a lower rank or position; inferior or secondary; especially (context military English) ranking as a junior officer, below the rank of captain. 2 (context logic English) Asserting only a part of what is asserted in a related proposition. n. 1 A subordinate. ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Subaltern \Sub*al"tern\, n. A person holding a subordinate position; specifically, a commissioned military officer below the rank of captain. (Logic) A subaltern proposition. --Whately.
Wikipedia
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In critical theory and postcolonialism , subaltern refers to the populations that are socially, politically and geographically outside of the hegemonic power structure of the colony and of the colonial homeland . In describing "history told from below", ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ He was put under arrest, and his subaltern brought the command out of town. ▪ In 1787 he sailed as a subaltern on a merchantman that was wrecked. ▪ Moreover, it has been reworked within the cultural forms and practices of a whole ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. inferior in rank or status; "the junior faculty"; "a lowly corporal"; "petty officialdom"; "a subordinate functionary" [syn: junior-grade , inferior , lower , lower-ranking , lowly , petty(a) , secondary , subordinate ] n. a British commissioned army ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"junior military officer," 1680s, earlier more generally, "person of inferior rank" (c.1600), noun use of adjective subaltern "having an inferior position, subordinate" (1580s), from Middle French subalterne , from Late Latin subalternus , from Latin sub ...
Usage examples of subaltern.
The seven American generals had their problems, too, but each had a bevy of subalterns to solve them, while French and English businessmen encountered much difficulty in acquiring even basic necessities.
The title of Bimbashi, which had seemed absurd to him seven months before, was now nothing out of the way, for he looked as old as many of the British subalterns serving with that rank in the Egyptian army.
It would not be fitting for me, a subaltern of horse, to offer any criticism, though eulogistic, on the commander under whom I have had the honour to serve in the field.
Semper Cuni Linctus, the very night that he reamed his subaltern for taking native superstitions seriously, passed an olive garden and saw the Seventeen .
I have set a nipperkin of toddy by me, just by way of spell, to keep away the meikle horned deil, or any of his subaltern imps who may be on their nightly rounds.
And it did amuse me to observe the solemn subalterns nodding all like wise young owlets, as though they could, if they only dared, reveal secrets that would astonish the General himself.
Just as the game was ended, he received a letter, brought in haste by two sowars, from Lieutenant Wheatley, the other subaltern at Chakdara, warning him that a great number of Pathans with flags were advancing on the fort.
Flight Subaltern Smith to his first duty station at Thimblerig Aerodrome in Augusta, Georgia.
Once again, the unifying power of the subaltern nation is a double-edged sword, at once progressive and reactionary.
Et Silmarn, Kateos, and Dowornobb said nothing until Longo and his subalterns had departed the dome.
Grim-faced young subalterns, very conscious of the bigness of the brass that occupied the platform at the far end of the cave, stamped back and forth along the ledge from squad to squad, deadly little Royster pistolettos tinkling and naked in their sweating hands.
The bailiff and his subaltern stepped into the parlour and I followed in their footsteps.
Nevertheless he was the only Leicestershire subaltern who went through all our battles unwounded.
Nom Anor pass, but only the apprentices and subalterns crossed their arms over their breasts.
Brimstonic University noted that one of his subalterns had failed to return from an expedition.