Subordinate can be categorized as a noun, a verb and an adjective.
Adjective |
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| subordinate - lower in rank or importance | ||
| subordinate - subject or submissive to authority or the control of another; "a subordinate kingdom" | ||
| subordinate - (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" | ||
Verb |
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| subordinate - rank or order as less important or consider of less value; "Art is sometimes subordinated to Science in these schools" | ||
| subordinate - make subordinate, dependent, or subservient; "Our wishes have to be subordinated to that of our ruler" | ||
Noun |
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| subordinate - an assistant subject to the authority or control of another | ||
| subordinate - a word that is more specific than a given word |
| # | Sentence | ||
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| 1. | adj. | A subordinate kingdom. | |
| 2. | adj. | A subordinate (or dependent) clause functions as a noun or adjective or adverb within a sentence. | |
| 3. | adj. | All the other issues are subordinate to this one. | |
| 4. | adj. | We all live, at any rate for a time, and the majority of us always, in polygamy. Consequently, as each man needs many women, nothing is more just than to let him, nay, make it incumbent upon him to provide for many women. By this means woman will be brought back to her proper and natural place as a subordinate being. | |
| 5. | adj. | According to some experts the spoken language uses few subordinate clauses. | |
| 6. | adj. | A man who is poor, but independent of other people, is only dominated by his needs. A man who is rich, but dependent, is subordinate to another person, or to several. | |
| 7. | adj. | "The sentence has got too long again." "Then just take out a few of the subordinate clauses." | |
| 8. | adj. | The cat is, above all things, a dramatist; its life is lived in an endless romance though the drama is played out on quite another stage than our own, and we only enter into it as subordinate characters, as stage managers, or rather stage carpenters. | |
| 9. | adj. | Today isn't subordinate to any country in the world. | |
| 10. | adj. | Algeria is independent and it's not subordinate to any country in the world. | |
| 11. | adj. | A conjunction is a word that connects a subordinate clause to a main clause. | |
| 12. | noun | I was stabbed in the back by my subordinate. | |
| 13. | noun | He's only a subordinate. | |
| 14. | noun | He is my subordinate. | |
| 15. | noun | Tom is my subordinate. | |
| 16. | noun | Tom isn't my subordinate. | |
| 17. | verb | He is able to subordinate passion to reason. |
| Sentence | |
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| adj. | |
| A subordinate kingdom. |
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| A subordinate (or dependent) clause functions as a noun or adjective or adverb within a sentence. |
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| All the other issues are subordinate to this one. | |
| We all live, at any rate for a time, and the majority of us always, in polygamy. Consequently, as each man needs many women, nothing is more just than to let him, nay, make it incumbent upon him to provide for many women. By this means woman will be brought back to her proper and natural place as a subordinate being. | |
| According to some experts the spoken language uses few subordinate clauses. | |
| A man who is poor, but independent of other people, is only dominated by his needs. A man who is rich, but dependent, is subordinate to another person, or to several. | |
| "The sentence has got too long again." "Then just take out a few of the subordinate clauses." | |
| The cat is, above all things, a dramatist; its life is lived in an endless romance though the drama is played out on quite another stage than our own, and we only enter into it as subordinate characters, as stage managers, or rather stage carpenters. | |
| Today isn't subordinate to any country in the world. | |
| Algeria is independent and it's not subordinate to any country in the world. | |
| A conjunction is a word that connects a subordinate clause to a main clause. | |
| noun | |
| I was stabbed in the back by my subordinate. | |
| He's only a subordinate. | |
| He is my subordinate. | |
| Tom is my subordinate. | |
| Tom isn't my subordinate. | |
| verb | |
| He is able to subordinate passion to reason. | |