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noun

Lieutenant n.

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."

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.)

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... the men they found, in Ayoub's camp, the body of Lieutenant Maclaine; who had been taken prisoner at Maiwand, and who was barbarously murdered, a few minutes before the arrival of the English troops. The battle cost the lives of three officers: Lieutenant Colonel Brownlow, commanding the 72nd Highlanders; Captain Frome, of the same regiment; and Captain Straton, 2nd battalion of the 22nd. Eleven officers were wounded, 46 men were killed, ...

— For Name and Fame - Or Through Afghan Passes • G. A. Henty

... and decorated with the Croix de Guerre—the 369th, the 371st, and the 372nd; while groups of officers and men of the 365th, the 366th, the 368th, the 370th, and the first battalion of the 367th were also decorated. At the close of the war the highest Negro officers in the army were Lieutenant Colonel Otis B. Duncan, commander of the third battalion of the 370th, formerly the Eighth Illinois, and the highest ranking Negro officer in the American Expeditionary Forces; Colonel Charles Young (retired), on special duty at Camp Grant, Ill.; ...

— A Social History of the American Negro • Benjamin Brawley

... of May, the troops of Massachusetts, together with Shirley's and Pepperel's regiments, amounting in the whole to about three thousand men, embarked, at Boston, under the command of lieutenant colonel Winslow. The fleet anchored about five miles from fort Lawrence, where a reinforcement was received of three hundred British troops and a small train of artillery. The whole army, commanded by lieutenant ...

— The Life of George Washington, Vol. 1 (of 5) • John Marshall

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