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Definitions for Soldiers
[1] a person who serves in an army; a person engaged in military service.
[2] an enlisted man or woman, as distinguished from a commissioned officer: the soldiers' mess and the officers' mess.
[3] a person of military skill or experience: George Washington was a great soldier.
[4] a person who contends or serves in any cause: a soldier of the Lord.
[5] Also called button man. Slang . a low-ranking member of a crime organization or syndicate.
[6] Entomology . a member of a caste of sexually underdeveloped female ants or termites specialized, as with powerful jaws, to defend the colony from invaders. a similar member of a caste of worker bees, specialized to protect the hive.
[7] a brick laid vertically with the narrower long face out. Compare rowlock(def 2) .
[8] Informal . a person who avoids work or pretends to work; loafer; malingerer.
[9] to act or serve as a soldier.
[10] Informal . to loaf while pretending to work; malinger: He was soldiering on the job.
[11] soldier on , to persist steadfastly in one's work; persevere: to soldier on until the work is done.
[12] a person who serves or has served in an army Also called: common soldier a noncommissioned member of an army as opposed to a commissioned officer
[13] a person who works diligently for a cause
[14] a low-ranking member of the Mafia or other organized crime ring
[15] zoology an individual in a colony of social insects, esp ants, that has powerful jaws adapted for defending the colony, crushing large food particles, etc (as modifier ) soldier ant
[16] informal a strip of bread or toast that is dipped into a soft-boiled egg
[17] to serve as a soldier
[18] obsolete , slang to malinger or shirk
Words related to Soldiers
soldierfighter, mercenary, guerrilla, veteran, guard, officer, volunteer, marine, pilot, paratrooper, trooper, commando, warrior, cadet, infantry, recruit, private, gunner, scout, rank
Words nearby Soldiers
old out, sold-out, soldan, solder, soldering iron, soldier, soldier beetle, soldier bird, soldier crab, soldier fly, soldier of fortune
Origin of Soldiers
1250–1300; Middle English souldiour < Old French soudier, so(l)dier, equivalent to soulde pay (< Latin solidus; see sol2) + -ier -ier2
Other words from Soldiers
sol·dier·ship , noun
non·sol·dier , noun
Word origin for Soldiers
C13: from Old French soudier, from soude (army) pay, from Late Latin solidus a gold coin, from Latin: firm
Synonyms for Soldiers
commando, fighter, guard, guerrilla, marine, mercenary, officer, paratrooper, pilot, trooper, veteran, volunteer, GI, cadet, conscript, draftee, gunner, infantry, musketeer, private, rank, recruit, scout, warmonger, warrior, Green Beret, airforce member, cavalryperson, enlisted person, infantryperson, military person, selectee, serviceperson, soldier-at-arms