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• n  a British commissioned army officer below the rank of captain
• s  inferior in rank or status

• A young subaltern with "dark eyes under long lashes, a pink and white complexion" was sent to Moran for "vetting.
• A subaltern of the Guards struck a policeman with the flat of his sword because he failed to salute the King's colors, which were carried past him oy the Guards' Regiment.
• That experience didn't seem to sour DeLay, who has begun his DWTS campaign with such vigor, you'd think the cast was stocked with Democrats instead of subaltern celebrities with at .

• junior-grade
• lower-ranking
• lowly
• petty
• secondary

News & Articles

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• Meet the maker of a Marxist video game about the evils of capitalism who turned his passion into a product
  Seth Alter, founder of Subaltern Games, has a problem with the education gaming industry: It’s just not fun enough. So he took to Kickstarter with an experiment: Give players a chance to commit unspeakable atrocities while diving into a leftist capitalistic critique. Can he make it fun?        
  Nov. 12, 2013 - Boston.com

Quotes

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• Lauren Berlant in Boston Globe (registration)
  Women's culture, minority culture, the culture of any subaltern group, has always been dismissed as being overemotional,Berlant says, because the claims of these groups on the dominant culture are emotional as well as political: They're...