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Subordinate
Definitions
- 1 Placed in a lower class, rank, or position.
"The several kinds […] and subordinate species of each are easily known."
- 2 Submissive or inferior to, or controlled by authority.
"November 9, 1662, Robert South, Of the Creation of Man in the Image of God It was subordinate, not enslaved, to the understanding."
- 3 dependent on and either modifying or complementing the main clause not-comparable
"In the sentence “The barbecue finished before John arrived”, the subordinate clause “before John arrived” specifies the time of the main clause, “The barbecue finished”."
- 4 Descending in a regular series.
- 1 (of a clause) unable to stand alone syntactically as a complete sentence wordnet
- 2 lower in rank or importance wordnet
- 3 subject or submissive to authority or the control of another wordnet
- 1 One who is subordinate. countable
- 2 a word that is more specific than a given word wordnet
- 3 A hyponym.
- 4 an assistant subject to the authority or control of another wordnet
- 1 To make subservient or secondary.; To embed (a clause) into another clause that is the main one. transitive
- 2 make subordinate, dependent, or subservient wordnet
- 3 To make subservient or secondary.; To make of lower priority in order of payment in bankruptcy. transitive
- 4 rank or order as less important or consider of less value wordnet
- 5 To treat (someone) as of less value or importance. transitive
Etymology
From Middle English subordinat, from Medieval Latin subōrdinātus, past participle of subōrdināre, from sub- + ōrdināre (“to order”).
From Middle English subordinat, from Medieval Latin subōrdinātus, past participle of subōrdināre, from sub- + ōrdināre (“to order”).
From Middle English subordinat, from Medieval Latin subōrdinātus, past participle of subōrdināre, from sub- + ōrdināre (“to order”).
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