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General dictionaries General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. subordinate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
  2. subordinate: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info]
  3. subordinate: Cambridge International Dictionary of English [home, info]
  4. subordinate: Wiktionary [home, info]
  5. subordinate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
  6. subordinate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
  7. subordinate: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
  8. subordinate: Dictionary.com [home, info]
  9. subordinate (adj.): Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
  10. subordinate: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
  11. subordinate: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info]
  12. Subordinate (finance), Subordinate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
  13. Subordinate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
  14. subordinate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
  15. subordinate: Rhymezone [home, info]
  16. subordinate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
  17. subordinate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
  18. subordinate: Free Dictionary [home, info]
  19. subordinate: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
  20. subordinate: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
  21. subordinate: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
  22. subordinate: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]

Art dictionaries Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. subordinate: The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) [home, info]

Business dictionaries Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. subordinate: Legal dictionary [home, info]
  2. subordinate: Financial dictionary [home, info]
  3. subordinate: BusinessDictionary.com [home, info]

Computing dictionaries Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. subordinate: Encyclopedia [home, info]

Medicine dictionaries Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. subordinate: Medical dictionary [home, info]

Miscellaneous dictionaries Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SUBORDINATE: Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary [home, info]

Quick definitions (subordinate)

noun:  an assistant subject to the authority or control of another
noun:  a word that is more specific than a given word
verb:  make subordinate, dependent, or subservient ("Our wishes have to be subordinated to that of our ruler")
verb:  rank or order as less important or consider of less value ("Art is sometimes subordinated to Science in these schools")
adjective:  subject or submissive to authority or the control of another ("A subordinate kingdom")
adjective:  lower in rank or importance
adjective:  of a clause; unable to stand alone syntactically as a complete sentence ("A subordinate (or dependent) clause functions as a noun or adjective or adverb within a sentence")
adjective:  inferior in rank or status ("A subordinate functionary")

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Phrases that include subordinate:   subordinate word, nominate subordinate taxon, subordinate legislation, play a subordinate role to, subordinate officer, more...

Words similar to subordinate:   subaltern, dependent, hyponym, inferior, junior-grade, lower, lower-ranking, low-level, lowly, petty, secondary, subordinated, subordinately, subordinateness, subordinating, subordination, subordinative, subsidiary, underling, minor, more...


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