Soldier

Quick meaning: Soldier is a noun meaning (countable, military) A member of a ground-based army, of any rank, but especially an enlisted member.

Meaning

(countable, military) A member of a ground-based army, of any rank, but especially an enlisted member.

More Meanings

1. (by extension, nonstandard, countable, military) Any member of a military, regardless of specialty.
2. (countable, formal, military) An enlisted member of a military service, as distinguished from a commissioned officer.
3. A guardsman.
4. A member of the Salvation Army.
5. A low-ranking gangster or member of a gang, especially the mafia, who engages in physical conflict.
6. A term of approbation for a young boy.
7. (British, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand) A piece of buttered bread (or toast), cut into a long thin strip for dipping into a soft-boiled egg.

Example Sentences

I am a soldier and unapt to weep.

She saw a soldier while collecting her baggage at the airport.

Beside his egg was a plate of buttered toast, already cut up into soldiers.

It were meet that any one, before he came to be a captain, should have been a soldier.

Word Forms

• soldiers
• soldior
• soldiour
• soldiering
• soldiered

Synonyms for soldier

Depending on context, synonyms include digger, dogface, doughboy, GI, grunt, jarhead.

Related Words

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