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soldier
[ sohl-jer ]
noun
- a person who serves in an army; a person engaged in military service.
- an enlisted person, as distinguished from a commissioned officer:
the soldiers' mess and the officers' mess.
- a person of military skill or experience:
George Washington was a great soldier.
- a person who contends or serves in any cause:
a soldier of the Lord.
- Also called button man. Slang. a low-ranking member of a crime organization or syndicate.
- 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.
- a brick laid vertically with the narrower long face out. Compare rowlock ( def 2 ).
- Informal. a person who avoids work or pretends to work; loafer; malingerer.
verb (used without object)
- to act or serve as a soldier.
- Informal. to loaf while pretending to work; malinger:
He was soldiering on the job.
verb phrase
- to persist steadfastly in one's work; persevere:
to soldier on until the work is done.
soldier
/ ˈsəʊldʒə /
noun
- a person who serves or has served in an army
- Also calledcommon soldier a noncommissioned member of an army as opposed to a commissioned officer
- a person who works diligently for a cause
- a low-ranking member of the Mafia or other organized crime ring
- 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
- informal.a strip of bread or toast that is dipped into a soft-boiled egg
verb
- to serve as a soldier
- obsolete.to malinger or shirk
Other Words From
- soldier·ship noun
- non·soldier noun
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of soldier1
Example Sentences
In Estonia, he will be there professionally as a future commander in chief of the Armed Forces and personally as a former soldier.
An accomplished journalist for a New Yorker-style publication with a specialty in culture and race, he’s a lapsed Muslim, unattached and mourning his late father but soldiering on.
From his perspective, it shows the complicated day-to-day Palestinians can face, such as being subjected to closer scrutiny at checkpoints controlled by Israeli soldiers.
The Israeli withdrawal early last month spurred what amounted to a homecoming, first for Aitaroun’s living, who returned in the thousands the morning soldiers left; and now, on this Friday in February, its dead.
Since the start of the war, Zelensky has eschewed suits for military-style dress in what he says is solidarity with soldiers.
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