2nd lieutenant

1. 1.

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

   Synonymssecond lieutenant

   Broaderlieutenant

Questions about 2nd lieutenant

What does 2nd lieutenant mean?

2nd lieutenant means "a commissioned officer in the Army or Air Force or Marine Corps holding the lowest rank".

What is another word for 2nd lieutenant?

Close synonyms include second 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 2nd lieutenant a common word?

2nd 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.