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soldier
/ˈsoʊld͡ʒɚ/
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What does soldier mean?
noun
- A member of a ground-based army, of any rank, but especially an enlisted member.
- Any member of a military, regardless of specialty.
- An enlisted member of a military service, as distinguished from a commissioned officer.
More meanings (19)
noun
- A guardsman.
- A member of the Salvation Army.
- A low-ranking gangster or member of a gang, especially the mafia, who engages in physical conflict.
- A piece of buttered bread (or toast), cut into a long thin strip for dipping into a soft-boiled egg.
- A term of approbation for a young boy.
- (figuratively) Someone who fights or toils well.
- A red or cuckoo gurnard (Chelidonichthys cuculus).
- One of the asexual polymorphic forms of termites, in which the head and jaws are very large and strong. The soldiers serve to defend the nest.
- A xiangqi piece that moves and captures by advancing one point. Once it has crossed the river, it may also move and capture one point horizontally.
- A brick, for example in a course of brickwork, that is laid vertically on its shortest end (smallest face), so that its tallest and slimmest face faces the outside of the wall.
- (dated, slang) A red herring (cured kipper with flesh turned red).
verb
- To continue steadfast; to keep striving.
- To serve as a soldier.
- To intentionally restrict labor productivity; to work at the slowest rate that goes unpunished.
- (slang) To take a ride on (another person's horse) without permission.
proper noun
- A tiny city in Monona County, Iowa.
- A tiny city in Jackson County, Kansas.
- An unincorporated community and coal town in Carter County, Kentucky.
- An unincorporated community in Jefferson County, Pennsylvania.
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IPA pronunciation
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Desgas went to the door, and apparently gave the necessary orders, for presently a soldier entered, carrying Chauvelin’s coat, boots, and hat.
The youth sat in a forlorn heap until his friend the loud young soldier came, swinging two canteens by their light strings.
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There’s not a soldier of us all that, in the thanksgiving before meat, do relish the petition well that prays for peace.
In face of this mean and mighty victory, in face of this victory which counts none victorious, this desperate soldier stands erect.
She had heard a great many desirable things of the young soldier from the lady who had recommended her school to him.