Definitions for soldier
ˈsoʊl dʒərsol·dier

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

1. soldiernoun

   an enlisted man or woman who serves in an army

   "the soldiers stood at attention"

2. soldierverb

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

3. soldierverb

   serve as a soldier in the military

Wiktionary(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. soldiernoun

   A member of an army, of any rank.

2. soldiernoun

   A guardsman.

3. soldiernoun

   A member of the Salvation Army.

4. soldiernoun

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

5. soldiernoun

   A term of affection for a young boy.

6. soldierverb

   To continue.

7. soldierverb

   To be a soldier.

8. 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.)

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

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. SOLDIERnoun

   Etymology: soldat, Fr. from solidarius, low Latin, of solidus, a piece of money, the pay of soldier; souldée, French.

   1. A fighting man; a warriour. Originally one who served for pay.

   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.

   2. It is generally used of the common men, as distinct from the commanders.

   It were meet that any one, before he came to be a captain, should have been a soldier. Edmund Spenser, on Ireland.

Wikipedia(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. 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.

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

1. 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

2. Soldiernoun

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

3. Soldiernoun

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

4. Soldiernoun

   the red or cuckoo gurnard (Trigla pini.)

5. 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

6. Soldierverb

   to serve as a soldier

7. Soldierverb

   to make a pretense of doing something, or of performing any task

8. 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. soldiernoun

   Gangster.

2. soldiernoun

   Member of a gang/crew.

Matched Categories

1. • Enlisted Person
   • Spend

British National Corpus

1. Nouns Frequency

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

Anagrams for soldier »

1. solider

How to pronounce soldier?

1. Alex

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   Mark

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   Mia

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   Karen

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   Oliver

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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. Ashley Marshall:

   There are good days and bad days for us, but I worry about his mental state. he’s the all-American soldier.

2. Michael Klemowski:

   We are focusing first on the personnel who are going to deploy. If a soldier is going to deploy, they are the first ones that need to have the new ID tags.

3. Jake Bequette:

   This is one thing I want to make very clear : I knew, and every soldier in my battalion knew, that we had a commander-in-chief who had our back, and we knew that if the worst happened to us, then our enemies would pay for it immediately, and even more importantly than that, our enemies knew that.

4. Albertina McClain:

   I used to be a soldier, so It really scared me when I heard about what happened. It sent me into a panic attack. I wasn't concerned about the house, but I was concerned about the soldier and his family. I can't stop praying for him.

5. Nora Sithole:

   I will soldier on.

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