Subaltern is valid Scrabble Word

Is subaltern a scrabble word?
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9 letters word
11 points in Scrabble
15 points in WWF

Definitions for SUBALTERN in dictionary:

NOUN:

a person holding a subordinate position; specifically, a junior officer (as in the British army)
an officer in the British army below the rank of captain, especially a second lieutenant.
British army officer below the rank of captain
A person holding a subordinate position; specifically, a commissioned military officer below the rank of captain.
A subaltern proposition.
a British commissioned army officer below the rank of captain

ADJECTIVE:

of lower status
(of a proposition) implied by another proposition (e.g. as a particular affirmative is by a universal one), but not implying it in return.
Ranked or ranged below; subordinate; inferior; specifically (Mil.), ranking as a junior officer; being below the rank of captain; as, a subaltern officer.
Asserting only a part of what is asserted in a related proposition.

inferior in rank or status
of inferior position or rank

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

particular with reference to a related universal proposition

Words related to SUBALTERN

Words that contain SUBALTERN

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How to use SUBALTERN in a sentence

Two guns of the Light Field Battery, under a subaltern, were also placed under my orders, and I took with me a young ensign to assist me in my duties.
This subaltern had only too much money, and if the truth be known, only too little honest interest in the career into which he had allowed himself to drift.
Captain Jose offered his subaltern, Lieutenant Bylegharicontractor, a hundred rupees to change places with him.
On this the subaltern of the Rifles, who was a fine well-grown lad, ran forward and drove full tilt at him with one of the queer crooked swords that the rifle-men carry.
Yvon, and a subaltern of one of the other companies.
I could not imagine a Sikh or subaltern stupid enough to believe me innocent.
We informed the subaltern that it was Sergeant le Marchand that we sought.
On the platform beforehand I meet a gunner subaltern.
Tudor stood absolutely motionless, facing the young subaltern who towered over him, without a sign of either anger or dismay.
It was a poor relief to have to move from one portion of the front line to another, especially as this company had only one subaltern.

My subaltern, however, would have it that the circumstances gave me no right of action against COX AND CO.
He was trapped and thrown by the quiet-mannered infantry subaltern, and it was all Messrs.
This duty had been carelessly trusted to a subaltern, who, frightened by seeing some of the enemy on the river-side, set fire hastily to the train.
He accepted Brandis, a subaltern of the 195th, on sight.
That star was an unknown British subaltern named Herbert Edwardes.
I was no longer a despatch rider but a very junior subaltern.
One, who appeared to be the subaltern, wore top-boots, turned down rather low, showing well-made calves, and colored silk stockings of doubtful cleanliness.
Now, the major has a remarkably youthful appearance, and when he chooses to assume the devil-may-care manner of a light-hearted subaltern, it fits him easily.
It was the Prince of Wales, but, so far as receiving any attention from the hurrying throng was concerned, he might as well have been an unknown subaltern.
Of the English detachment twelve soldiers were slain, and thirty wounded, including three subaltern officers, one of whom lost his arm.
The chief leader of this plot was Arthur Thistlewood, who had once served as a subaltern in the West Indies.
The Captain now succeeded to the command of the battery, and the Senior Subaltern became second-in-command.
Contrary to general expectation, the Bulgarian army, imperfectly equipped and led by subaltern officers, successfully resisted the Servian invasion.
A subaltern, it has been said, learns but little of the higher art of war in the course of a campaign.
I remember on one occasion at a court ball at Berlin when a young subaltern incurred the anger of the late Prince Frederick-Charles by tripping up his partner.
Now Bobby had once been compelled to share his room for a few nights with a newly-joined and homeless subaltern.
By the way, Major Hunt-Goring met them in his subaltern days.
The Major, if he had fifty hats, would take them all off to the junior subaltern.
No man really wants to spend his whole life as a reporter, a clerk, a subaltern, a private Member, or a curate.
This subaltern had returned from the South African war, a Colonel and still extremely good-looking.

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