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/ˈsəʊld͡ʒə/ · noun
(countable, military) A member of a ground-based army, of any rank, but especially an enlisted member..
My friends and I saw a soldier questioning a man holding a bag with a gun in his pocket.
The Citizens in their rage, imagining that euery poſt in the Churche had bin one of yᵉ Souldyers, ſhot habbe or nabbe at randon uppe to the Roode lofte, and to the Chancell, leauing ſome of theyr arrowes ſticking in the Images.
I am a soldier and unapt to weep.
Captain Edward Carlisle, soldier as he was, martinet as he was, felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze, her alluring smile ; he could not tell what this prisoner might do.
Stanning, who was commissioned from Sandhurst in 2008 and has served in Afghanistan, is not the first soldier to bail out the organisers at these Games but will be among the most celebrated.
She saw a soldier while collecting her baggage at the airport.
It were meet that any one, before he came to be a captain, should have been a soldier.
Beside his egg was a plate of buttered toast, already cut up into soldiers.
Use soldier when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Soldier means (countable, military) A member of a ground-based army, of any rank, but especially an enlisted member..
Common synonyms include digger, dogface, doughboy, GI.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
My friends and I saw a soldier questioning a man holding a bag with a gun in his pocket.
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