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LIEUTENANT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An assistant with power to act when his superior is absent
Synonyms:
deputy; lieutenant
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("lieutenant" is a kind of...):
assistant; help; helper; supporter (a person who contributes to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "lieutenant"):
second-in-command (someone who relieves a commander)
vicar-general ((Roman Catholic Church) an administrative deputy who assists a bishop)
vice-regent (a regent's deputy)
Derivation:
lieutenancy (the position of a lieutenant)
Sense 2
Meaning:
An officer in a police force
Synonyms:
lieutenant; police lieutenant
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("lieutenant" is a kind of...):
law officer; lawman; peace officer (an officer of the law)
Derivation:
lieutenancy (the position of a lieutenant)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A commissioned military officer
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("lieutenant" is a kind of...):
commissioned military officer (a commissioned officer in the Army or Air Force or Marine Corps)
Domain category:
armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "lieutenant"):
1st lieutenant; first lieutenant (a commissioned officer in the Army or Air Force or Marines ranking above a 2nd lieutenant and below a captain)
2nd lieutenant; second lieutenant (a commissioned officer in the Army or Air Force or Marine Corps holding the lowest rank)
sublieutenant (an officer ranking next below a lieutenant)
Derivation:
lieutenancy (the position of a lieutenant)
Sense 4
Meaning:
An officer holding a commissioned rank in the United States Navy or the United States Coast Guard; below lieutenant commander and above lieutenant junior grade
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("lieutenant" is a kind of...):
commissioned naval officer (a commissioned officer in the navy)
Domain category:
armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)
Derivation:
lieutenancy (the position of a lieutenant)
Context examples:
When you are a lieutenant! only think, William, when you are a lieutenant, how little you will care for any nonsense of this kind.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Harsh old flag-officers, grave post-captains, young lieutenants, all were roaring like schoolboys breaking up for the holidays.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
My lieutenant, for instance, is a man of wonderful courage and enterprise; he is madly desirous of glory, or rather, to word my phrase more characteristically, of advancement in his profession.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Captain Benwick had some time ago been first lieutenant of the Laconia; and the account which Captain Wentworth had given of him, on his return from Lyme before, his warm praise of him as an excellent young man and an officer, whom he had always valued highly, which must have stamped him well in the esteem of every listener, had been followed by a little history of his private life, which rendered him perfectly interesting in the eyes of all the ladies.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
You remember the Gregorys; they are grown up amazing fine girls, but they will hardly speak to me, because Lucy is courted by a lieutenant.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
When I joined the Service, you would find a lieutenant gammoning and rigging his own bowsprit, or aloft, maybe, with a marlinspike slung round his neck, showing an example to his men.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
But Miss Frances married, in the common phrase, to disoblige her family, and by fixing on a lieutenant of marines, without education, fortune, or connexions, did it very thoroughly.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Can you deny that a seaman before the mast makes more in a fast frigate than a lieutenant can in a battleship?
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
William had obtained a ten days' leave of absence, to be given to Northamptonshire, and was coming, the happiest of lieutenants, because the latest made, to shew his happiness and describe his uniform.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
I see her again in her middle years, sweet and loving, planning, contriving, achieving, with the few shillings a day of a lieutenant’s pay on which to support the cottage at Friar’s Oak, and to keep a fair face to the world.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
