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Definitions for soldier
ˈsoʊl dʒərsol·dier
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word soldier.
Princeton's WordNet
soldiernoun
an enlisted man or woman who serves in an army
"the soldiers stood at attention"
soldierverb
a wingless sterile ant or termite having a large head and powerful jaws adapted for defending the colony
soldierverb
serve as a soldier in the military
Wiktionary
soldiernoun
A member of an army, of any rank.
soldiernoun
A guardsman.
soldiernoun
A member of the Salvation Army.
soldiernoun
A piece of buttered bread (or toast), cut into a long thin strip and dipped into a soft-boiled egg.
soldiernoun
A term of affection for a young boy.
soldierverb
To continue.
soldierverb
To be a soldier.
soldierverb
To intentionally restrict labor productivity; to work at the slowest rate that goes unpunished. Has also been called dogging it or goldbricking. (Originally from the way that conscripts may approach following orders. Usage less prevalent in the era of all-volunteer militaries.)
Etymology: From soudeour, from soudeer or soudeour 'mercenary', from soldarius 'soldier (one having pay)', from solidus, a type of coin.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
SOLDIERnoun
Etymology: soldat, Fr. from solidarius, low Latin, of solidus, a piece of money, the pay of soldier; souldée, French.
Your sister is the better soldier. William Shakespeare, King Lear.
Good Siward,
An older and a better soldier none. William Shakespeare, Macbeth.A soldier,
Full of strange oaths, and bearded like a pard,
Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel,
Seeking the bubble reputation
Ev’n in the cannon’s mouth. William Shakespeare.This attempt
I’m soldier to, and will abide it with
A prince’s courage. William Shakespeare, Cymbeline.I have not yet forgot I am a king:
If I have wrong’d thee, charge me face to face;
I have not yet forgot I am a soldier. John Dryden, Don Sebastian.It were meet that any one, before he came to be a captain, should have been a soldier. Edmund Spenser, on Ireland.
Wikipedia
Soldier
A soldier is one who fights as part of an army. A soldier can be a conscripted or volunteer enlisted person, a non-commissioned officer, or an officer. In other definition, soldiers are military personnel that participate in ground, sea, or air forces, commonly known as armies, navies, and air forces, respectively.
ChatGPT
soldier
A soldier is a person who serves in an army and participates in military activities, typically involving ground warfare. They are trained to defend their country by engaging in combat and they follow the commands of superior officers. Soldiers can perform various roles and duties such as combat roles, support roles, or ceremonial duties, and they are generally expected to uphold strict discipline, loyalty, and courage.
Webster Dictionary
Soldiernoun
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
Soldiernoun
especially, a private in military service, as distinguished from an officer
Soldiernoun
a brave warrior; a man of military experience and skill, or a man of distinguished valor; -- used by way of emphasis or distinction
Soldiernoun
the red or cuckoo gurnard (Trigla pini.)
Soldiernoun
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
Soldierverb
to serve as a soldier
Soldierverb
to make a pretense of doing something, or of performing any task
Etymology: [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.]
Wikidata
Soldier
A soldier is one who fights as part of an organized land-based armed force; if that force is for hire the person is generally termed a mercenary soldier, or mercenary. The majority of cognates of the word "soldier" that exist in other languages have a meaning that embraces both commissioned and non-commissioned officers in national land forces.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Soldier
sōl′jėr, n. a man engaged in military service: a private, as distinguished from an officer: a man of much military experience or of great valour: a soldier-ant, beetle, hermit-crab, &c.: (slang) a red herring.—v.i. to serve as a soldier: to bully: to shirk one's work or duty: (slang) to take a mount on another man's horse.—ns. Sol′dier-crab, a hermit-crab; Sol′diering, the state of being a soldier: the occupation of a soldier.—adjs. Sol′dier-like, Sol′dierly, like a soldier: martial: brave.—ns. Sol′dier-of-for′tune, one ready to serve anywhere for pay or his own advancement; Sol′diership, state or quality of being a soldier: military qualities: martial skill; Sol′diery, soldiers collectively: the body of military men; Fresh′water-sol′dier, the Stratiotes aloides, a European aquatic plant with sword-shaped leaves.—Come the old soldier over one, to impose on any one.—Old soldier, a bottle emptied at a sitting: a cigar-stump. [O. Fr. soldier (Fr. soldat)—L. solidus, a piece of money, the pay of a soldier.]
Dictionary of Nautical Terms
soldier
One that has enlisted to serve his government in peace or war; receiving pay, and subject to the Mutiny Act and Articles of War.
Military Dictionary and Gazetteer
soldier
Is one who enters into an obligation to some chieftain or government to devote for a specified period his whole energies, and even if necessary his life itself, to the furtherance of the policy of that chief or government. The consideration may be immediate pay, or prospective reward; or the contract may be merely an act of loyal devotion. The acknowledgment of the service by the employer constitutes the man a recognized soldier, and empowers him to take life in open warfare, without being liable to the penalties of an assassin and a robber. The fact of being mercenary—that is, of receiving wages for killing and being killed—does not render a soldier’s trade less honorable. He bears arms that others may be able to do without them; he is precluded by the exigencies of military training from maintaining himself by peaceful occupation; and it is therefore but fair that those whom he protects should support him, and give him, over and above actual maintenance, reasonable wages for the continual risk of his life. If a man willingly enlist himself as a soldier in what he believes to be an unrighteous cause, it is an act of moral turpitude; but when once enlisted, the soldier ceases to be morally responsible for the justice or iniquity of the war he wages; that rests with his employer. Obedience, implicit and entire, is his sole virtue. The maxim is, “The military force never deliberates, but always obeys.” Brother soldier is a term of affection which is commonly used by one who serves under the same banners, and fights for the same cause, with another. In a more extensive signification, it means any military man with respect to another.
Rap Dictionary
soldiernoun
Gangster.
soldiernoun
Member of a gang/crew.
Editors Contribution
soldiernoun
Personified arbitrary name representing a Nation who strongly opposes change or someone who continues to support something in spite of opposition. 1.) A person who serves in an army. A private in an army.
I am a soldier of love.
Etymology: Saint
Submitted by Tehorah_Elyon on February 21, 2024
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Nouns Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'soldier' in Nouns Frequency: #870
Anagrams for soldier »
solider
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of soldier in Chaldean Numerology is: 7
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of soldier in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1
Examples of soldier in a Sentence
Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Farewell address, quoted on "We Interrupt This Broadcast" CD-ROM:
And now, like the old soldier of that ballad, I now close my military career, and just fade away...an old soldier who tried to do his duty, as God gave him the light to see that duty. Good-bye.
The Greeks by their laws, and the Romans by the spirit of their people, took care to put into the hands of their rulers no such engine of oppression as a standing army. Their system was to make every man a soldier, and oblige him to repair to the standard of his country whenever that was reared. This made them invincible and the same remedy will make us so.
UNMISS here has so many foreign troops, so we will not accept even a single soldier here.
It helps boost a soldier’s courage and aggressiveness, if soldiers engage in a mission that is not suitable for firing weapons, they may also use bayonet as an alternative option.
It is this principle of service above self that is at the heart of every soldier, at the heart of every service member, and it is in this spirit that today I announce my candidacy for President of the United States of America, i will bring this soldier's principles to the White House, restoring the values of dignity, honor and respect to the presidency and above all else, love for our people and love for our country.
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- soldaatAfrikaans
- جندي, عسكريArabic
- əsgər, soldatAzerbaijani
- һалдатBashkir
- салдат, воінBelarusian
- войник, воин, солдатBulgarian
- সৈনিকBengali
- དམག་མིTibetan Standard
- soudardBreton
- soldatCatalan, Valencian
- сурхоChechen
- vojákCzech
- milwrWelsh
- soldatDanish
- Soldatin, Bausoldat, SoldatGerman
- φρουρός, στρατιώτης, φύλακας, εθνοφρουρόςGreek
- soldato, soldatiEsperanto
- soldadoSpanish
- sõdur, sõjaväelaneEstonian
- soldaduBasque
- سربازPersian
- sotilas, soturi, solttu, pelastussotilasFinnish
- hermaðurFaroese
- soldat, mouilletteFrench
- soldaatWestern Frisian
- saighdiúirIrish
- laochan, saighdear, freiceadanScottish Gaelic
- soldadoGalician
- sidoorManx
- חילHebrew
- सैनिकHindi
- soldaHaitian Creole
- katonaHungarian
- զինվորArmenian
- prajurit, tentara, serdaduIndonesian
- hermaður, dátiIcelandic
- soldatoItalian
- 兵隊, 軍人, 兵士, 警備員, 従軍するJapanese
- prajuritJavanese
- ჯარისკაციGeorgian
- жауынгер, сарбаз, әскер, солдат, ұланKazakh
- ទាហានKhmer
- ಸೈನಿಕKannada
- 군인, 軍人Korean
- سهرباز, چهکمهبۆر, عهسکهر, باڵبازKurdish
- черик, черүү, жоокер, солдатKyrgyz
- mīlesLatin
- ZaldotLuxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- ທະຫານLao
- karysLithuanian
- kareivis, karavīrsLatvian
- војникMacedonian
- പടയാളിMalayalam
- цэрэгMongolian
- सैनिकMarathi
- askar, hulubalang, perajurit, tenteraMalay
- suldatMaltese
- စစ်သားBurmese
- barnesoldat, soldatNorwegian
- soldaat, heilsoldate, soldate, heilsoldaatDutch
- barnesoldat, soldatNorwegian Nynorsk
- siláo, siláołtsooí, łééchąąʼí yił níniiNavajo, Navaho
- soldatOccitan
- ସୈନିକOriya
- żołnierz, wojakPolish
- soldadoPortuguese
- sudà, suldo, schuldà, schuldo, schuldau, sudoRomansh
- militar, ostaș, soldatRomanian
- военнослужащий, солдафон, военный, охранник, часовой, страж, караульный, солдат, воин, вояка, служитьRussian
- војникиња, vojak, војнослужац, vojnik, vojnikinja, војак, vojnoslužac, војникSerbo-Croatian
- සොල්දාදුවාSinhala, Sinhalese
- vojakSlovak
- vojak, vojákinjaSlovene
- ushtarAlbanian
- pajuritSundanese
- soldatSwedish
- askariSwahili
- போர்வீரன்Tamil
- బంటుTelugu
- солдат, сарбоз, аскарTajik
- ทหารThai
- esğer, soldatTurkmen
- kawalTagalog
- askerTurkish
- солдат, сугышчыTatar
- جەڭچىUyghur, Uighur
- солдат, воїнUkrainian
- فوجیUrdu
- soldat, askarUzbek
- người lính, bộ độiVietnamese
- jisoldat, soldat, hisoldatVolapük
- סאָלדאַט, זעלנערYiddish
- 士兵Chinese
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