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Meaning
Adj
●
In Military ranks:
Of a lower
rank
or
position
;
inferior
or
secondary
; especially (military)
ranking
as a
junior
officer
, below the
rank
of captain.
●
In Logic:
Asserting only a part of what is
asserted
in a related proposition.
Noun
●
A subordinate.
●
In British English & Military:
A
commissioned officer
having a
rank
below that of
captain
; a
lieutenant
or second
lieutenant
.
●
In Logic:
A
subaltern
proposition
; a
proposition
implied
by a
universal
proposition
.
●
In Social sciences:
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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Origin
subaltern
English
subalternus
Latin
Sourced from
Etym
Related
Proletarian
Postcolonial
Oppressed
Hegemonic
Diasporic
Bourgeois
Racialized
Bourgeoisie
Hybridity
Spivak
Colonized
Racialization
Oppression
Discourse
Lumpenproletariat
Feminism
Feminist
Otherness
Proletariat
Emancipatory
Narrator
Marginalized
Patriarchal
Oppressor
Discursive
Patriarchy
Colonised
Narrative
Poet
Colonizer
Colonialism
Orient
Ideology
Woman
Orientalist
Novelist
Marxist
Womanist
Literary
Ecofeminist
Hegemony
Subjugation
Marginalised
Class Struggle
Working Class
Black Man
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