• a word that is more specific than a given word
• an assistant subject to the authority or control of another
• make Subordinate, dependent, or subservient; "Our wishes have to be Subordinated to that of our ruler"
• rank or order as less important or consider of less value; "Art is sometimes Subordinated to Science in these schools"
• 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"
• lower in rank or importance
• inferior in rank or status; "the junior faculty"; "a lowly corporal"; "petty officialdom"; "a Subordinate functionary"
• subject or submissive to authority or the control of another; "a Subordinate kingdom"

'Subordinate' in other languages