Uttal

    • IPA: /ˈsʌbəltɚn/
ÖversättningKontext
Substantiv
1.subbemilitärslang

Definitioner

Adjektiv

  1. Of a lower rank or position; inferior or secondary; especially (military) ranking as a junior officer, below the rank of captain.
  2. (logic) Asserting only a part of what is asserted in a related proposition.

Substantiv

  1. A subordinate.
  2. (British) A commissioned officer having a rank below that of captain; a lieutenant or second lieutenant.
  3. (logic) A subaltern proposition; a proposition implied by a universal proposition. For example, some crows are black is a subaltern of all crows are black.

Exempel

  • a subaltern officer
  • She was an extraordinarily beautiful girl, Margaret Devereux ; and made all the men frantic by running away with a penniless young fellow ; a mere nobody sir a subaltern in a foot regiment, or something of that kind.

Böjningsformer

Pluralsubalterns
Komparativmore subaltern
Superlativmost subaltern

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