LekhoriLekhoriOf a lower rank or position; inferior or secondary; especially (military) ranking as a junior officer, below the rank of captain.
a subaltern officer
Asserting only a part of what is asserted in a related proposition.
A subordinate.
A commissioned officer having a rank below that of captain; a lieutenant or second lieutenant.
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.
From Middle French subalterne, from Late Latin subalternus, from Latin sub- + alternus, from alter.
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A subaltern proposition; a proposition implied by a universal proposition.