Meanings of teniente in English

The teniente, in that case, would better destroy himself on the spot.

Senor teniente,' he cried, loudly, as I saluted at the door.

The captain-general, Senor de Guevara, directed the teniente of Silla.

Ten men would not have been enough to make him a prisoner, mi teniente.

As for that teniente-ah ,heis favored above his general!

At each little village we would come to, the teniente called out in a loud voice: Ahhhhhh-Pooooooo!

The evacuation camp teniente (town lieutenant) kept me busy every day, visiting the sick in camp.

I asked the teniente, "What is so funny?"

The following day, with the barrio teniente, we looked for places to hide the radio if it became necessary.

Instead I stepped toward the entrance, but the teniente snatched at the slack of my shirt with a gasp of terror:

The 'teniente' looked at the can curiously, and then, handing it to me, asked me if I knew what it was.

For a moment Alaire and her companion rode in silence, but the teniente was not content with this praise of his leader.

Alaire tried to banish such ideas, but even in her own room she was not permitted entirely to forget, for Dolores echoed the teniente's sentiments.

The company did not report problems at El Teniente, its biggest mine.

It wasn't 'Tonio; it was your own brother shot Teniente Willett.

Teniente gobernador: Administrative officer of a small village or hamlet.