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Found 1 definition: soldier.

Pos: Noun, Verb (intransitive)

[WORDNET DICTIONARY]

Noun soldier has 2 senses

1. soldier(n = noun.person) - an enlisted man or woman who serves in an army; "the soldiers stood at attention"
is a kind of enlisted person
has particulars: gurkha, anzac, cannon fodder, fodder, fresh fish, cavalryman, trooper, cavalryman, trooper, color bearer, standard-bearer, confederate soldier, lobsterback, redcoat, flanker, goldbrick, green beret, guardsman, highlander, foot soldier, footslogger, infantryman, marcher, janissary, jawan, legionary, legionnaire, man-at-arms, marine, militiaman, orderly, para, paratrooper, peacekeeper, pistoleer, poilu, point man, ranker, regular, reservist, rifleman, section eight, tank driver, tanker, territorial, unknown soldier, wac, uriah, allen, ethan allen, bayard, chevalier de bayard, pierre de terrail, pierre terrail, seigneur de bayard, borgia, cesare borgia, cyrano de bergerac, savinien cyrano de bergerac, higginson, thomas higginson, thomas wentworth storrow higginson, kosciusko, kosciuszko, tadeusz andrzej bonawentura kosciuszko, thaddeus kosciusko, la fayette, lafayette, marie joseph paul yves roch gilbert du motier, marquis de lafayette, lawrence, lawrence of arabia, t. e. lawrence, thomas edward lawrence, henry lee, lee, lighthorse harry lee, mehemet ali, mohammed ali, muhammad ali, daniel morgan, morgan, harry hotspur, hotspur, percy, sir henry percy, juan domingo peron, peron, jan christian smuts, smuts, tancred
Derived forms verb soldier₁, adjective soldierly₁, noun soldiership₁

2. soldier(n = noun.animal) - a wingless sterile ant or termite having a large head and powerful jaws adapted for defending the colony;
is a kind of worker

Verb soldier has 1 senses

soldier(v = verb.competition) - serve as a soldier in the military;
is one way to pass, spend
Derived forms noun soldier₁, noun soldiering₁, noun soldiery₁
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s PP

[CIDE DICTIONARY]

soldier, n. [OE. souldier, soudiour, souder, OF. soldier, soldoier, soldeier, sodoier, soudoier, soudier, fr. L. solidus a piece of money (hence applied to the pay of a soldier), fr. solidus solid. See Solid, and cf. Sold, n.].

1. One who is engaged in military service as an officer or a private; one who serves in an army; one of an organized body of combatants. [1913 Webster]
"I am a soldier and unapt to weep." [1913 Webster]

2. Especially, a private in military service, as distinguished from an officer. [1913 Webster]
"It were meet that any one, before he came to be a captain, should have been a soldier." [1913 Webster]

3. A brave warrior; a man of military experience and skill, or a man of distinguished valor; -- used by way of emphasis or distinction. Shak. [1913 Webster]

4. The red or cuckoo gurnard (Trigla pini.) [1913 Webster]

5. One of the asexual polymorphic forms of white ants, or termites, in which the head and jaws are very large and strong. The soldiers serve to defend the nest. See Termite. [1913 Webster]

Soldier beetle (Zoöl.), an American carabid beetle (Chauliognathus Americanus) whose larva feeds upon other insects, such as the plum curculio. -- Soldier bug (Zoöl.), any hemipterous insect of the genus Podisus and allied genera, as the spined soldier bug (Podius spinosus). These bugs suck the blood of other insects. -- Soldier crab (Zoöl.) (a) The hermit crab. (b) The fiddler crab. -- Soldier fish (Zoöl.), a bright-colored etheostomoid fish (Etheostoma cœruleum) found in the Mississippi River; -- called also blue darter, and rainbow darter. -- Soldier fly (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of small dipterous flies of the genus Stratyomys and allied genera. They are often bright green, with a metallic luster, and are ornamented on the sides of the back with markings of yellow, like epaulets or shoulder straps. -- Soldier moth (Zoöl.), a large geometrid moth (Euschema militaris), having the wings bright yellow with bluish black lines and spots. -- Soldier orchis (Bot.), a kind of orchis (Orchis militaris).

soldier, v. i.

1. To serve as a soldier. [1913 Webster]

2. To make a pretense of doing something, or of performing any task. [1913 Webster]
" In this sense the vulgar pronounciation (s is jocosely preserved." [1913 Webster]
"It needs an opera glass to discover whether the leaders are pulling, or only soldiering." [1913 Webster]

[OXFORD DICTIONARY]

soldier, n. & v.
--n.
1 a person serving in or having served in an army.
2 (in full common soldier) a private or NCO in an army.
3 a military commander of specified ability (a great soldier).
4 (in full soldier ant) a wingless ant or termite with a large head and jaws for fighting in defence of its colony.
5 (in full soldier beetle) a reddish-coloured beetle, Rhagonycha fulva, with flesh-eating larvae.
--v.intr. serve as a soldier (was off soldiering).

Idiom:
soldier of Christ an active or proselytizing Christian. soldier of fortune an adventurous person ready to take service under any State or person; a mercenary. soldier on colloq. persevere doggedly.

Derivative:
soldierly adj. soldiership n.

Etymology:
ME souder etc. f. OF soudier, soldier f. soulde (soldier's) pay f. L solidus: see SOLIDUS

[ROGET DICTIONARY]

Combatant

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