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Another word for subaltern

Adjective

  1. Below another in standing or importance

    2. See also:

    over

Another word for subaltern

Noun

  1. One belonging to a lower class or rank

    2. See also:

    over

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Another word for subaltern

Modifier
    2. See also:

    subordinate

    subject

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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.

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

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