The lieutenant kept riding his horse out into the fields and saying to him, “I’m drunk, I tell you, mon vieux.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
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Merriam-Webster
— an official empowered to act for a higher official
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Macmillan
— an officer of low rank in most armed forces
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Other Word Forms
lieutenants
Usage
1 use of ‘lieutenant’ in In Our Time, by Ernest Hemingway
1 use of ‘lieutenant’ in Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
2 uses of ‘lieutenant’ in The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald