Definitions for soldier
ˈsoʊl dʒərsol·dier

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:3.5 / 2 votes

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

WiktionaryRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

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 DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. 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 DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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.]

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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 DictionaryRate this definition:1.0 / 1 vote

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 TermsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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 GazetteerRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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 DictionaryRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. soldiernoun

   Gangster.

2. soldiernoun

   Member of a gang/crew.

Editors ContributionRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. 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  

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

   US English

   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

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   Libby

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   Mia

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   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

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   Veena

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   Priya

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   Neerja

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   Zira

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   Oliver

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   Wendy

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   Fred

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   Tessa

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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. Mohammed Zahir:

   The American soldier tapped on my shoulder and said, 'I am sorry,'.

2. Duncan Hunter:

   Here is someone who is trying to save lives and who puts it on Jason Amerine sleeve basically what Jason Amerine is doing and Jason Amerine got slammed for it by the The Army, so you have them doing a retaliatory investigation of a great soldier. This is the kind of guy we want in The Army. This is who we want out there fighting for us.

3. Lew Rockwell:

   If something is wrong for you or me, it is also wrong for the cop, the soldier, the mayor, the governor, the general, the Fed chairman, the president. Theft does not become acceptable when they call it taxation, counterfeiting when they call it monetary policy, kidnapping when they call it the draft, mass murder when they call it foreign policy. We understand that it is never acceptable to wield violence nor the threat of violence against the innocent, whether by the mugger or the politician.

4. Nora Sithole:

   I will soldier on.

5. Mahatma Gandhi:

   I regard myself as a soldier, though a soldier of peace.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=soldier
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Soldier
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=soldier
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soldier
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/soldier
7. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=soldier
8. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=soldier
9. ^ Dictionary of Nautical Terms
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/26000/pg26000-images.html#:~:text=soldier
10. ^ Military Dictionary and Gazetteer
    https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/59563/pg59563-images.html