UNDERLING Synonyms

• someone who assists a priest or minister in a liturgical service; a cleric ordained in the highest of the minor orders in the Roman Catholic Church but not in the Anglican Church or the Eastern Orthodox Churches

• an officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer

• someone who acts as assistant

• works for an expert to learn a trade

• be or work as an apprentice

• a person who contributes to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose

• of or relating to a person who is subordinate to another

• someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another

• a person who is present and participates in a meeting

• an event or situation that happens at the same time as or in connection with another

• being present (at a meeting or event, etc.)

• occurring with or following as a consequence

• someone authorized to exercise the powers of sheriff in emergencies

• an assistant with power to act when his superior is absent

• a member of the lower chamber of a legislative assembly (such as in France)

• a person appointed to represent or act on behalf of others

• a male servant (especially a footman)

• a person of unquestioning obedience

• a person who accepts the leadership of another

• someone who travels behind or pursues another

• someone who assists in a plot

• younger; lower in rank; shorter in length of tenure or service

• term of address for a disrespectful and annoying male

• a son who has the same first name as his father

• a third-year undergraduate

• the younger of two persons

• used of the younger of two persons of the same name especially used to distinguish a son from his father

• used of the third or next to final year in United States high school or college

• including or intended for youthful persons

• a male servant (especially a footman)

• a person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage

• a servile or fawning dependant

• a laborer who is obliged to do menial work

• a part or voice or instrument or orchestra section lower in pitch than or subordinate to the first

• 1/60 of a minute; the basic unit of time adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites

• an indefinitely short time

• the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed near the second of the bases in the infield

• a particular point in time

• following the first in an ordering or series

• a 60th part of a minute of arc

• the official attendant of a contestant in a duel or boxing match

• a speech seconding a motion

• the gear that has the second lowest forward gear ratio in the gear box of a motor vehicle

• merchandise that has imperfections; usually sold at a reduced price without the brand name

• in the second place

• coming next after the first in position in space or time or degree or magnitude

• give support or one's approval to

• transfer an employee to a different, temporary assignment

• (Middle Ages) a person who is bound to the land and owned by the feudal lord

• a person working in the service of another (especially in the household)

• in a subordinate position

• the subject matter of a conversation or discussion

• something (a person or object or scene) selected by an artist or photographer for graphic representation

• a branch of knowledge

• some situation or event that is thought about

• (grammar) one of the two main constituents of a sentence; the grammatical constituent about which something is predicated

• a person who is subjected to experimental or other observational procedures; someone who is an object of investigation

• a person who owes allegiance to that nation

• (logic) the first term of a proposition

• possibly accepting or permitting

• being under the power or sovereignty of another or others

• likely to be affected by something

• cause to experience or suffer or make liable or vulnerable to

• make accountable for

• make subservient; force to submit or subdue

• a person holding a fief; a person who owes allegiance and service to a feudal lord

• a person who works at a specific occupation

• a member of the working class (not necessarily employed)

• sterile member of a colony of social insects that forages for food and cares for the larvae

• a person who acts and gets things done