Definitions for soldier
ˈsoʊl dʒərsol·dier

Princeton's WordNet(3.50 / 2 votes)Rate this definition:

1. soldier(noun)

   an enlisted man or woman who serves in an army

   "the soldiers stood at attention"

2. soldier(verb)

   a wingless sterile ant or termite having a large head and powerful jaws adapted for defending the colony

3. soldier(verb)

   serve as a soldier in the military

Wiktionary(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. soldier(Noun)

   A member of an army, of any rank.

   Etymology: From soudeour, from soudeer or soudeour 'mercenary', from soldarius 'soldier (one having pay)', from solidus, a type of coin.

2. soldier(Noun)

   A guardsman.

   Etymology: From soudeour, from soudeer or soudeour 'mercenary', from soldarius 'soldier (one having pay)', from solidus, a type of coin.

3. soldier(Noun)

   A member of the Salvation Army.

   Etymology: From soudeour, from soudeer or soudeour 'mercenary', from soldarius 'soldier (one having pay)', from solidus, a type of coin.

4. soldier(Noun)

   A piece of buttered bread (or toast), cut into a long thin strip and dipped into a soft-boiled egg.

   Etymology: From soudeour, from soudeer or soudeour 'mercenary', from soldarius 'soldier (one having pay)', from solidus, a type of coin.

5. soldier(Noun)

   A term of affection for a young boy.

   Etymology: From soudeour, from soudeer or soudeour 'mercenary', from soldarius 'soldier (one having pay)', from solidus, a type of coin.

6. soldier(Verb)

   To continue.

   Etymology: From soudeour, from soudeer or soudeour 'mercenary', from soldarius 'soldier (one having pay)', from solidus, a type of coin.

7. soldier(Verb)

   To be a soldier.

   Etymology: From soudeour, from soudeer or soudeour 'mercenary', from soldarius 'soldier (one having pay)', from solidus, a type of coin.

8. soldier(Verb)

   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.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Soldier(noun)

   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

   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.]

2. Soldier(noun)

   especially, a private in military service, as distinguished from an officer

   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.]

3. Soldier(noun)

   a brave warrior; a man of military experience and skill, or a man of distinguished valor; -- used by way of emphasis or distinction

   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.]

4. Soldier(noun)

   the red or cuckoo gurnard (Trigla pini.)

   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.]

5. Soldier(noun)

   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

   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.]

6. Soldier(verb)

   to serve as a soldier

   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.]

7. Soldier(verb)

   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.]

Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. 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(1.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. 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(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. 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(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. 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(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. soldier(noun)

   Gangster.

2. soldier(noun)

   Member of a gang/crew.

British National Corpus

1. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'soldier' in Nouns Frequency: #870

Anagrams for soldier »

1. solider

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of soldier in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of soldier in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of soldier in a Sentence

1. Baghdad Betty, Iraqi radio announcer, to gulf war troops:

   Dear American soldier... are you prepared to die for a cheap barrel of oil?

2. Stewart Perry:

   The woman sitting directly behind us touched me on the shoulder and asked if I was the father of the soldier killed in Afghanistan.

3. Rodrigue Katembo:

   We need to have the same kind of strategies in place to combat illegal mining exploration in Virunga National Park and have the laws be respected like we did in Virunga, we need to have a support at national and international level.Hide Caption 11 of Rodrigue Katembo Photos : Protecting Africas oldest parkHe hopes to be able to develop ecological activities around the park's boundaries that will provide income for Virunga National Park local community. But due to lack of finance, there is only one truck to patrol over 4,000 square miles. Pictured, Rodrigue Katembo Katembo.Hide Caption 12 of 12 / * global CNN * /' use strict' ; jQuery( document). ready( function() { var galleryAdSlide = new CNN.AdSlide(' el __ gallery', false, CNN.contentModel.singletonFile) ; }) ; Rodrigue Katembo has loved wildlife since Rodrigue Katembo was young. But like many in the African nation, he has been touched by war. When he was 14 years old in 1989, Rodrigue Katembo was taken as a child soldier, during the Democratic Republic of Congo's long running armed conflict.He would remain a soldier for eight years in different rebel groups. After peace was briefly restored, he began work at Virunga, in 2003, protecting the land and healing the community.

4. Thomas Jefferson:

   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.

5. Pierre Ilboudo:

   We saw what the civilians did before. If the soldier is prime minister, it's better for all of us.

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