English Dictionary

subaltern

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈsʌbəltɚn/

名詞

イギリス英語

A subordinate. / (Britain, military) A commissioned officer having a rank below that of captain; a lieutenant or second lieutenant.

日本語の意味

下位の者（従属者、部下） / （英国の軍隊で）大尉より下の階級の士官、すなわち中尉または少尉

The subaltern completed the report before the meeting and handed it to their superior.

その部下は会議の前に報告書を完成させ、上司に渡した。

意味（1）

A subordinate.

意味（2）

(Britain, military) A commissioned officer having a rank below that of captain; a lieutenant or second lieutenant.

She was an extraordinarily beautiful girl, Margaret Devereux ; and made all the men frantic by running away with a penniless young fellow ; a mere nobody sir a subaltern in a foot regiment, or something of that kind.

意味（3）

(logic) A subaltern proposition; a proposition implied by a universal proposition.

意味（4）

(social sciences, literary theory) 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.

Young refers sardonically to the existence of reams of postcolonial theory, and promises to give us postcolonialism from below, which is what and where it should rightly be, given that it elaborates a politics of ‘the subaltern’, that is, subordinated classes and peoples.

subalterns （ plural ）