A subaltern is a commissioned officer in the army, under the rank of captain. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 4. American and English Today. 2. Differences in Usage] Reference
His talk radio conservatism is tinged with the fanaticism of someone who comes from a "subaltern" group. From Wordnik.com. [Joseph A. Palermo: Neo-Confederacy Erupts with Governors' Rejection of Stimulus Money] Reference
Hindutva was an antidote to the "subaltern" mobilisations of Mandal and the regional parties. From Wordnik.com. [Countercurrents.org] Reference
I mean, just by being a discriminated-against minority on the university campus, they don't need the word 'subaltern'. From Wordnik.com. [openDemocracy] Reference
Many students enroll in these programs not just to learn about a subject but to affirm their identity as a member of a "subaltern" group. From Wordnik.com. [Critical Mass] Reference
One was from a cavalry subaltern in a German fortress. From Wordnik.com. [The Better Germany in War Time Being some Facts towards Fellowship] Reference
The subaltern paled as he looked at this damning proof. From Wordnik.com. [The Kangaroo Marines] Reference
"Don't you know who I am?" said the indignant subaltern. From Wordnik.com. [The Kangaroo Marines] Reference
I asked a subaltern, keeping time with him as he marched. From Wordnik.com. [Pushed and the Return Push] Reference
But there was disappointment when the subaltern returned. From Wordnik.com. [Pushed and the Return Push] Reference
They've killed a subaltern and a sergeant of the East ---- s. From Wordnik.com. [Pushed and the Return Push] Reference
His staff cap commanded the respect of an innocent subaltern. From Wordnik.com. [The Kangaroo Marines] Reference
At last he recalled "Tony," a young subaltern from Hawkes Bay. From Wordnik.com. [The Kangaroo Marines] Reference
"There you are," said the subaltern, handing him ten crisp Bank of. From Wordnik.com. [The Kangaroo Marines] Reference
"The subaltern who was waiting for us to relieve your battery, sir.". From Wordnik.com. [Pushed and the Return Push] Reference
The new subaltern of A Battery suddenly lowered himself into the pit. From Wordnik.com. [Pushed and the Return Push] Reference
It was my cousin, Lord St. Nivel, a subaltern in the Coldstream Guards!. From Wordnik.com. [A Queen's Error] Reference
He was a celebrity at head-quarters, I a subaltern at an isolated post. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885] Reference
Marsh, his subaltern, orders where to go, and later on followed himself. From Wordnik.com. [The Second Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers in the South African War With a Description of the Operations in the Aden Hinterland] Reference
But even if ministers did go out, I am but a poor subaltern in a public office. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II] Reference
A major and a subaltern of the machine-gunners clambered down the opposite bank. From Wordnik.com. [Pushed and the Return Push] Reference
Major English, with Lieutenant Newton as his subaltern, was sent to garrison it. From Wordnik.com. [The Second Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers in the South African War With a Description of the Operations in the Aden Hinterland] Reference
The morning after the main fight a little Syrian subaltern passed through my hands. From Wordnik.com. [Pan-Islam] Reference
Our company commander went out with myself and another subaltern and about forty men. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 5, August, 1915] Reference
German subaltern quietly urged his men to get back to their train and leave us alone. From Wordnik.com. [The Better Germany in War Time Being some Facts towards Fellowship] Reference
His advice was at the service of the most recent company commander or newest subaltern. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry] Reference
If the officer was a colonel, would a subaltern be able quietly to countermand his orders?. From Wordnik.com. [The Better Germany in War Time Being some Facts towards Fellowship] Reference
And woe everywhere to him who falls into the hands of a subaltern drunk with his authority!. From Wordnik.com. [The Simple Life] Reference
She was dancing with a subaltern from the garrison town, and was evidently enjoying herself. From Wordnik.com. [Nell, of Shorne Mills or, One Heart's Burden] Reference
Europe -- his delay at Moscow was a gigantic absurdity in the eyes of every subaltern in his army. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847] Reference
"Come on, you fellows; get into these things," said the subaltern, pointing to the Turkish clothes. From Wordnik.com. [The Kangaroo Marines] Reference
The officers 'mess was saved by a subaltern, who succeeded in procuring a Kaffir cooking-pot and some very tough fowls, which. From Wordnik.com. [The Second Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers in the South African War With a Description of the Operations in the Aden Hinterland] Reference
Romer's party followed the turn right enough, part of his advance-guard, under a subaltern, went wandering off into the black night. From Wordnik.com. [The Second Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers in the South African War With a Description of the Operations in the Aden Hinterland] Reference
Then the various tasks of the day were performed under the direction of a captain or subaltern daily detailed as the "officer of the day". From Wordnik.com. [Old Fort Snelling 1819-1858] Reference
A ridiculous figure appeared of a Turkish subaltern officer, who has come into this wild desert to ask the people for tribute to the Porte. From Wordnik.com. [Byeways in Palestine] Reference
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