Definitions for lieutenant

lieutenant lieu·ten·ant

Spelling: [loo-ten-uh nt; in British use, except in the navy, lef-
IPA: /luˈtɛn ənt; in British use, except in the navy, lɛfˈtɛn ənt/

Lieutenant is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 328 anagrams from letters in lieutenant (aeeilnnttu).

Definitions for lieutenant

noun

  1. Military. first lieutenant. second lieutenant.
  2. U.S. Navy. a commissioned officer ranking between lieutenant junior grade and lieutenant commander.
  3. a person who holds an office, civil or military, in subordination to a superior for whom he or she acts:

Origin of lieutenant

1325-75; Middle English Middle French, noun use of adj. phrase lieu tenant place-holding. See locum tenens, li

Examples for lieutenant

lieutenant Ford was wounded and a branch of an artery was cut.

My immediate chief was a lieutenant Colonel Verne L. Bowers, clearly picked out by Eisenhower as a highly talented staff officer.

lieutenant Rawlins volunteered to try and reach it with the order.

lieutenant Wynter brought these back, as an escort to the guns.

He was a young Army Air Force lieutenant whose plane crashed in the Pacific in May 1943.

Neary had held the rank of lieutenant since 1983 and received multiple commendations during nearly four decades on the job.

Captain Baker and lieutenant Wheatley followed with a few more.

In 2010, he finished second with 39 percent in the race for lieutenant governor.

Had he not had the strength to do so, lieutenant Ford must have died.

He ran on a serious one-issue platform: eliminate the office of lieutenant governor.

Word Value for lieutenant
Scrable

10

Words with friends

14

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