Word Finder - subaltern

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A subordinate.

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A commissioned officer having a rank below that of captain; a lieutenant or second lieutenant.

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A subaltern proposition; a proposition implied by a universal proposition. For example, some crows are black is a subaltern of all crows are black.

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(literary theory) A member of a group that is socially, politically and geographically outside of the hegemonic power structure of the colony and of the colonial homeland.

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Of a lower rank or position; inferior or secondary; especially ranking as a junior officer, below the rank of captain.

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a subaltern officer

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

Its strength is 60 mounted policemen and 190 foot, with II superior and 40 subaltern officers.

Only one was executed, a poor, uneducated subaltern militia officer Joaquim Jose da Silva Xavier, nicknamed 0 Tiradentes (the Tooth-puller), the others being imprisoned or banished.

The screams of a wounded British officer abandoned at the bottom of a dark ravine are heard by a young Scottish subaltern.

I was the senior subaltern at the time and so introduced him to life in the Battalion.

As a former subaltern of the Life Guards, he is still fettered by the curious, but stern social code of his regiment.

Friend and foe and the dead A subaltern at the front writes.

What are the implications of commemorative history to both dominant and subaltern groups within American society?

In this way, the book contributes to some of the most crucial debates on the nature of subaltern politics and consciousness.

His younger daughter married a subaltern in a line regiment, belonging to the lesser nobility; as ennobled by marriage (according to the liberal rule of this particular court), she was duly "presented."

He entered the Turkish army as a subaltern with - out money or influence but gained admission to the staff college at Constantinople, and from there went to Salonika, the head - quarters of the Young Turk movement.

As a cavalry subaltern he distinguished himself by his gallant conduct in actions with the Comanches in Texas, and was severely wounded in 1859.

Kebir after Arabi Pasha and all his officers, from general to subaltern, had fled, and gave way only when decimated by the British field artillery firing case shot.

But the friends of Narses continually plied him with suggestions that he, a great officer of the household, in the secrets of the emperor, had been sent to Italy, not to serve as a subaltern, but to hold independent command and win military glory for himself.

He was educated at the Smolensk gymnasium, and in 1855 entered an infantry regiment as a subaltern.

But there was little scope there for the activities of a young and energetic subaltern, and, leaving the service in 1836, he entered the Carlist army campaigning in Spain.

His patron having discovered the value of so laborious and powerful a subaltern, wished to bind Burke permanently to his service.

He was still a subaltern when the Hungarian revolution of 1848 broke out, and he offered his services to the patriot party.