Adjective subaltern has 1 sense
  1. junior-grade, inferior, lower, lower-ranking, lowly, petty, secondary, subaltern, subordinate - inferior in rank or status; "the junior faculty"; "a lowly corporal"; "petty officialdom"; "a subordinate functionary"
    Antonym: senior (indirect, via junior)
,Noun subaltern has 1 sense
  1. subaltern - a British commissioned army officer below the rank of captain
    --1 is a kind of
    commissioned military officer
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