subalternhoodn.
/ˈsʌblt(ə)nhʊd/, U.S. /səˈbɔltərnˌ(h)ʊd/, /səˈbɑltərnˌ(h)ʊd/ Military. Now rare.
The period of time spent as a subaltern officer.
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subalternship1825
subalternhood1857
1857 Fraser's Mag. 56 172 The Indian officer has to serve a long subalternhood.
1894 H. M. Vibart Addiscombe 530 His war services were all in his subalternhood.
1901 Pall Mall Mag. Mar. 308 In the days of my impecunious subalternhood I once horrified an aristocratic hatter by asking for a footman's hat.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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