1st lieutenant

1. 1.

   a commissioned officer in the Army or Air Force or Marines ranking above a 2nd lieutenant and below a captain

   Synonymsfirst lieutenant

   Broaderlieutenant

Questions about 1st lieutenant

What does 1st lieutenant mean?

1st lieutenant means "a commissioned officer in the Army or Air Force or Marines ranking above a 2nd lieutenant and below a captain".

What is another word for 1st lieutenant?

Close synonyms include first lieutenant. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is 1st lieutenant a common word?

1st lieutenant is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.