Subaltern Synonyms

sŭb-ôltərn, sŭbəl-tûrn
One belonging to a lower class or rank
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. inferior
  2. secondary
  3. subordinate
  4. junior
  5. assistant
  6. underling
  7. servile

Words Related to Subaltern

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. subject
  2. over
  3. sepoy
  4. waffen-ss

Subaltern Sentence Examples

  • 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.

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