subaltern
Of a lower rank or position; inferior or secondary; especially (military rank) ranking as a junior officer, below the rank of captain.
(logic) Asserting only a part of what is asserted in a related proposition.
A subordinate.
(British, military) 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.
(logic) A subaltern proposition; a proposition implied by a universal proposition.
(social sciences, literary theory) A member of a group that is socially, politically and geographically outside of the hegemonic power structure of the colony and of the colonial homeland.
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