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/səbˈɔrdənˌeɪt/ /səbˈɔrdənət/ Listen

adjective

Subordinate adj.

Placed in a lower order, class, or rank; holding a lower or inferior position. "The several kinds and subordinate species of each are easily distinguished."

Inferior in order, nature, dignity, power, importance, or the like. "It was subordinate, not enslaved, to the understanding."

noun

Subordinate n. One who stands in order or rank below another; distinguished from a principal.

verb

Subordinate v. t. (past & past part. subordinated; pres. part. subordinating)

To place in a lower order or class; to make or consider as of less value or importance; as, to subordinate one creature to another.

To make subject; to subject or subdue; as, to subordinate the passions to reason.

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Etymology of 'Subordinate'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Subordinate" Quotes from Famous Books

... the city that demand a different form of government and show conclusively that there is no need of a separate legislative body. In the first place, the city is not a sovereign government, but is subordinate to state and nation. There is no reason for a distinct legislature to determine the broad matters of policy, for they are determined for the citizens of the city as well as those of the country, by the state and national legislatures, in which both ...

— Elements of Debating • Leverett S. Lyon

... say that these are the real strongholds of the new system on its theoretical side; that it goes far toward explaining both the physiological and the structural gradations and relations between the two kingdoms, and the arrangement of all their forms in groups subordinate to groups, all within a few great types; that it reads the riddle of abortive organs and of morphological conformity, of which no other theory has ever offered a scientific explanation, and supplies ...

— Evolution and Ethics and Other Essays • Thomas H. Huxley

... him. True, he represented a class whose incomes exceeded a certain standard, and therefore suffered rather more heavily; but the same calculation, with very slight alterations, applied to all other subordinate ones. ...

— Border and Bastille • George A. Lawrence

... heard afterwards in the Hebrides, were originally an indigent and subordinate clan, and having no farms nor stock, were in great numbers servants to the Maclellans, who, in the war of Charles the First, took arms at the call of the heroic Montrose, and were, in one of his battles, almost all destroyed. ...

— A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland • Samuel Johnson

... peculiar—and that Claudia would have regarded such an attempt with keen indignation; and by the further thought that if you once start on general laws, there's no telling where you will stop. The moment you get yours nicely formulated, your neighbor comes along with a wider one, and reduces it to a subordinate proposition, or even to the humiliating status of a mere example. Now even philosophers lose their temper when this occurs, while ordinary mortals resort to abuse. These dangers and temptations may be conscientiously, and shall be ...

— Father Stafford • Anthony Hope

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