Noun:

(இராணுவத்தில்) தலைவருக்கும் கீழ்ப்பட்டவர்,

subaltern's Usage Examples:

His younger daughter married a subaltern in a line regiment, belonging to the lesser nobility; as ennobled by marriage (according to the liberal rule of this particular court), she was duly "presented.

Promotion in the German army is excessively slow, the senior subalterns having eighteen to twenty years commissioned service and the senior captains sometimes thirty.

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.

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.

The subalterns of the Madrid garrison took offence at some articles published by Radical newspapers, and they attacked the editorial offices.

He was still in office when the final rising of the Cubans began in February 1895, and he had to resign in March because he could not find superior officers in the army willing to help him to put down the turbulent and disgraceful demonstrations of the subalterns of Madrid garrison against newspapers which had given offence to the military.

The most irreconcilable Republicans knew that they could not expect much from popular risings in great towns or from the disaffected and anarchist peasantry iii Andalusia, so they resorted to the old practice of barrack conspiracies, courting especially the non-commissioned officers and some ambitious subalterns.

And this was perhaps more than some of the other subalterns received - in addition to their army pay, that is to say.

Its strength is 60 mounted policemen and 190 foot, with II superior and 40 subaltern officers.

Back to top We had a subalterns ' court-martial the other day.

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.

As a cavalry subaltern he distinguished himself by his gallant conduct in actions with the Comanches in Texas, and was severely wounded in 1859.

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

Synonyms:

lower-ranking, petty, junior, lowly, secondary, junior-grade,

Antonyms:

dominant, essential, primary, original, senior,