lieutenant
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ənt; noun
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2.
U.S. Navy. a commissioned officer ranking between lieutenant junior grade and lieutenant commander.
3.
a person who holds an office, civil or military, in subordination to a superior for whom he or she acts: If he can't attend, he will send his lieutenant.
Origin:
1325–75; Middle English < Middle French, noun use of adj. phrase lieu tenant place-holding. See locum tenens, lieu, tenant
1325–75; Middle English < Middle French, noun use of adj. phrase lieu tenant place-holding. See locum tenens, lieu, tenant
Related forms
un·der·lieu·ten·ant, noun
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lieutenant (lɛfˈtɛnənt, US luːˈtɛnənt) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a military officer holding commissioned rank immediately junior to a captain |
| 2. | a naval officer holding commissioned rank immediately junior to a lieutenant commander |
| 3. | (US) an officer in a police or fire department ranking immediately junior to a captain |
| 4. | a person who holds an office in subordination to or in place of a superior |
| [C14: from Old French, literally: place-holding] | |
| lieu'tenancy | |
| —n | |
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Word Origin & History
lieutenant
late 14c., "one who takes the place of another," from O.Fr. lieu tenant "substitute," lit. "placeholder," from lieu "place" + tenant, prp. of tenir "to hold." The notion is of a "substitute" for higher authority. Specific military sense of "officer next in rank to a captain" is from 1570s. Pronunciation
with lef- is common in Britain, and spellings to reflect it date back to 14c., but the origin of it is mysterious.
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Easton
Bible Dictionary
Lieutenant definition
(only in A.V. Esther 3:12; 8:9; 9:3; Ezra 8:36), a governor or viceroy of a Persian province having both military and civil power. Correctly rendered in the Revised Version "satrap."
Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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Encyclopedia Britannica
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lieutenant
company grade officer, the lowest rank of commissioned officer in most armies of the world. The lieutenant normally commands a small tactical unit such as a platoon.
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Example sentences
The lieutenant commanding a tank platoon has served as a tank driver, loader, gunner and tank commander.
It was later revealed that a captain and a lieutenant had planted the explosives, which detonated by mistake.
The legislature, which meets only every other year, takes its cues from the independently elected lieutenant governor.
The police lieutenant has had a tree called after him.
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