second lieutenant

1. 1.

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

   Synonyms2nd lieutenant

   Broaderlieutenant

Questions about second lieutenant

What does second lieutenant mean?

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

What is another word for second lieutenant?

Close synonyms include 2nd 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 second lieutenant a common word?

second 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.