subaltern

/suhb-awl-tern or, especially for 3, 6, suhb-uhl-turn/US // sʌbˈɔl tərn or, especially for 3, 6, ˈsʌb əlˌtɜrn //UK // (ˈsʌbəltən) //

中尉,中产阶级,中层人士,中下层人士

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective

1
- : lower in rank; subordinate: a subaltern employee.
- : British Military. noting a commissioned officer below the rank of captain.
- : Logic. denoting the relation of one proposition to another when the first proposition is implied by the second but the second is not implied by the first. denoting the relation of a particular proposition to a universal proposition having the same subject, predicate, and quality.of or relating to a proposition having either of these relations to another.

n.名词 noun

1
- : a person who has a subordinate position.
- : British Military. a commissioned officer below the rank of captain.
- : Logic. a subaltern proposition.

nounsecondary person

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What better hap could a cavalry subaltern desire than such a fight under such conditions?
The subaltern flew up the narrow stairway that led to the room of the prisoner, and demanded the meaning of the outcry.
Where before he had been a subaltern not always even a wage-earner—now all in a moment he had been transformed into a high chief.
And hastily taking a paper from the hands of a subaltern, he returned to his place within the screen.
At his return to Dresden he carried a Musket, and afterwards pass'd through all the subaltern Degrees.