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subaltern::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | junior-grade, lower-ranking, lowly, petty, secondary |
subaltern::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
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| Type of | commissioned military officer |
Examples of subaltern
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The reporter is a young subaltern, connected and surpassingly self-confident.
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A subaltern walked in front of him with a blade to prevent him from running.
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Subaltern in the Balkan army, he led a rebellion that deposed Maurice.
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Forbes was commissioned as a subaltern in the 1st Welsh Guards in 1939.
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Bihar is among the few Indian states which has a rich subaltern culture.
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For a while Giscard loftily dismissed the ruckus as mere subaltern political maneuvering.
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Many laws claim to have the aim of protecting the interests of the poor and the subaltern.
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The particular is the subaltern of the universal, which is the particular's superaltern.
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This resistance is practiced by many, including the subaltern, a group of marginalized, and least powerful.
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- A British commissioned army officer below the rank of captain
- Junior-grade: inferior in rank or status; "the junior faculty"; "a lowly corporal"; "petty officialdom"; "a subordinate functionary"
- Subaltern is a term that commonly refers to persons who are socially, politically, and geographically outside of the hegemonic power structure.
- A subordinate; a commissioned officer having a rank just below that of Captain; A subaltern proposition; a proposition implied by a universal proposition. For example, some crows are black is a subaltern of all crows are black; Of a lower rank or position; inferior or secondary
- (subalterns) is the opposition between two propositions both alike in quality; the propositions may both be true together or both false together. (Study 2)
- The Indian critic Gayatri Spivak borrows this term from Antonio Gramsci to describe dominated, subordinated and marginalized groups especially those who are doubly oppressed, such as colonised women.
- Vantage point of historically subordinate peoples, recently revalued in literature and scholarship, from which to reinterpret experience of oppression and assess global processes
- A person occupying a lower, inferior or subordinate rank or position.
- Generally, a Lieutenant. Deriving from the Latin sub, meaning less or inferior, and alternus meaning alternate. When used as a modifier, subaltern means the lesser rank to Captain. However, it generally includes Captains when referring to Subaltern Rank. ...
