SECOND LIEUTENANT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does second lieutenant mean? 

• SECOND LIEUTENANT (noun)
  The noun SECOND LIEUTENANT has 1 sense:

1. a commissioned officer in the Army or Air Force or Marine Corps holding the lowest rank

  Familiarity information: SECOND LIEUTENANT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SECOND LIEUTENANT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A commissioned officer in the Army or Air Force or Marine Corps holding the lowest rank

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

2nd lieutenant; second lieutenant

Hypernyms ("second lieutenant" is a kind of...):

lieutenant (a commissioned military officer)

 Context examples 

So reasoned Edmund, till his father made him the confidant of a scheme which placed Fanny's chance of seeing the second lieutenant of H.M.S. Thrush in all his glory in another light.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Then, as a second lieutenant, he was in one of those grim three-deckers with powder-blackened hulls and crimson scupper-holes, their spare cables tied round their keels and over their bulwarks to hold them together, which carried the news into the Bay of Naples.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)