Crossword-Solution: SUBALTERN
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Subaltern | a. | Ranked or ranged below; subordinate; inferior; specifically (Mil.), ranking as a junior officer; being below the rank of captain; as, a subaltern officer. |
| Subaltern | a. | Asserting only a part of what is asserted in a related proposition. |
| Subaltern | n. | A person holding a subordinate position; specifically, a commissioned military officer below the rank of captain. |
| Subaltern | n. | A subaltern proposition. |
We have 10 clues for the answer “SUBALTERN”
| Clue | Answers |
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| British army officer below the rank of captain | 1 answer |
| Officer below rank of captain: Brit. | 1 answer |
| Term first used by Antonio Gramsci to mean a subject excluded from hegemonic power structures | 1 answer |
| Lower in rank or status | 3 answers |
| army officer | 9 answers |
| A BRITISH COMMISSIONED ARMY OFFICER BELOW THE RANK OF CAPTAIN | 10 answers |
| ARMY rank | 20 answers |
| Junior | 26 answers |
| subordinate | 46 answers |
| INFERIOR person | 49 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AETER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with SUBALTERN (5)
Even the very place of his captivity was uncertain, and his fate but very imperfectly known to the generality of his subjects, who were, in the meantime, a prey to every species of subaltern oppression.
The outlaw noticed the surprised hesitation of his faithful subaltern and signing him to listen, said: “Red Shandy, Norman of Torn has fought and sacked and pillaged for the love of it, and for a principle which was at best but a vague generality.
And the state, too? As I left, the government was sitting,—the new government, of which at least two members must be known to you by name: Sabra, who had, I believe, the benefit of being formed in your employment—a footman, am I right?—and our old friend the Chancellor, in something of a subaltern position.
You have been hitherto in a mere subaltern attitude; dealing cruel blows about you in life, yet only half responsible, since you came there by no choice or movement of your own.
Clay had lived for a longer time among Spanish-Americans than had the English subaltern, or else he was the quicker of the two to believe in evil and ingratitude, for he gave a cry of warning, and motioned the women away.
Quotes with SUBALTERN (2)
Now, as you well know, it is not seldom the case in this conventional world of ours - watery or otherwise; that when a person placed in command over his fellow-men finds one of them to be very significantly his superior in general pride of manhood, straightway against that man he conceives an unconquerable dislike and bitterness; and if he have a chance he will pull down and pulverize that subaltern's tower, and make a little heap of dust of it.
I'm drawn to the figure of the ungrateful subaltern as a trope in literature. In real life, it is often dangerous to demand more.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: New Yorker, NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1957–2021).