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Lieutenant : (noun)
1: a commissioned military officer
2: an officer in a police force [syn: police lieutenant]
3: an assistant with power to act when his superior is absent
[syn: deputy]
4: 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
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Lieutenant : \Lieu*ten"ant\ (l[-u]*t[e^]n"ant), n. [F., fr. lieu
place _ tenant holding, p. pr. of tenir to hold, L. tenere.
See Lieu, and Tenant, and cf. Locum Tenens.]
1. An officer who supplies the place of a superior in his
absence; a representative of, or substitute for, another
in the performance of any duty.
The lawful magistrate, who is the vicegerent or
lieutenant of God. --Abp.
Bramhall.
2.
(a) A commissioned officer in the army, next below a
captain.
(b) A commissioned officer in the British navy, in rank
next below a commander.
(c) A commissioned officer in the United States navy, in
rank next below a lieutenant commander.
Note: Lieutenant is often used, either adjectively or in
hyphened compounds, to denote an officer, in rank next
below another, especially when the duties of the higher
officer may devolve upon the lower one; as, lieutenant
general, or lieutenant-general; lieutenant colonel, or
lieutenant-colonel; lieutenant governor, etc.
Deputy lieutenant, the title of any one of the deputies or
assistants of the lord lieutenant of a county. [Eng.]
Lieutenant colonel, an army officer next in rank above
major, and below colonel.
Lieutenant commander, an officer in the United States navy,
in rank next below a commander and next above a
lieutenant.
Lieutenant general. See in Vocabulary.
Lieutenant governor.
(a) An officer of a State, being next in rank to the
governor, and, in case of the death or resignation of
the latter, himself acting as governor. [U. S.]
(b) A deputy governor acting as the chief civil officer of
one of several colonies under a governor general.
[Eng.]
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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LIEUTENANT. This word has now a narrower meaning than it formerly had; its
true meaning is a deputy, a substitute, from the French lieu, (place or
post) and tenant (holder). Among civil officers we haveLieutenant :
governors, who in certain cases perform the duties of governors; (vide, the
names of the several states,) lieutenants of police, &c. Among military men,
lieutenant general was formerly the title of a commanding general, but now
it signifies the degree above major general. Lieutenant colonel, is the
officer between the colonel and the major. Lieutenant simply signifies the
officer next below a captain. In the navy, a lieutenant is the second
officer next in command to the captain of a ship.
Based on Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [Bouvier_Law_Dictionary]:
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Lieutenant : (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."
Based on Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [Bouvier_Law_Dictionary]:
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