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subaltern  n 
1 a commissioned officer below the rank of captain in certain armies, esp. the British 
2 a person of inferior rank or position 
3  (Logic) 
a the relation of one proposition to another when the first is implied by the second, esp. the relation of a particular to a universal proposition 
b (as modifier) 
a subaltern relation  
  adj 
4 of inferior position or rank 
 (C16: from Late Latin subalternus, from Latin sub- + alternus alternate, from alter the other)