first lieutenant

1. 1.

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

   Synonyms1st lieutenant

   Broaderlieutenant

Questions about first lieutenant

What does first lieutenant mean?

first 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 first lieutenant?

Close synonyms include 1st 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 first lieutenant a common word?

first 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.