Definition of "leftenant" [leftenant]

• An archaic spelling of lieutenant. (noun)

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• ""Flight Lieutenant Clarke, RAF," the Brit had introduced himself, with that funny way of saying "leftenant" that the Brits had."
• "The 25-year-old prince is a second lieutenant or "leftenant" as they say there in the British Army."
• "It also makes me think of General Greaves Simcoe, the first Leiutenant (pronounced "leftenant" in our dialect) of Upper Canada (as the original boundaries of our part of "British North America" were known)."