soldier
IPA: sˈoʊɫdʒɝ
noun
- A member of a ground-based army, of any rank, but especially an enlisted member.
- (by extension, nonstandard) Any member of a military, regardless of specialty.
- An enlisted member of a military service, as distinguished from a commissioned officer.
- A guardsman.
- A member of the Salvation Army.
- A low-ranking gangster or member of a gang, especially the mafia, who engages in physical conflict.
- (Britain, Australia, New Zealand) A piece of buttered bread (or toast), cut into a long thin strip for dipping into a soft-boiled egg.
- A term of approbation for a young boy.
- Someone who fights or toils well.
- The red or cuckoo gurnard (Chelidonichthys cuculus).
- One of the asexual polymorphic forms of termites, in which the head and jaws are very large and strong. The soldiers serve to defend the nest.
- (slang, dated) A red herring (cured kipper with flesh turned red).
- (xiangqi) A xiangqi piece that moves and captures by advancing one point. Once it has crossed the river, it may also move and capture one point horizontally.
- One of the bricks in a course of brickwork that are laid vertically on their shortest ends, so that their narrowest edges face the outside of the wall.
- A tiny city in Monona County, Iowa.
- A tiny city in Jackson County, Kansas.
- An unincorporated community and coal town in Carter County, Kentucky.
- An unincorporated community in Jefferson County, Pennsylvania.
verb
- (intransitive) To continue steadfast; to keep striving.
- (intransitive) To serve as a soldier.
- (intransitive) To intentionally restrict labor productivity; to work at the slowest rate that goes unpunished.
- (transitive, slang) To take a ride on (another person's horse) without permission.
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Examples of "soldier" in Sentences
- He was convoked as an army soldier.
- The war was gruesome to most soldiers.
- They were mercenary soldiers in the armies.
- The dauntless soldier was eventually killed.
- The soldiers of the holy war will punish you.
- The video was dedicated to the soldiers in the war.
- The soldiers had to backdown in the middle of the war.
- A soldier's duty is to win the war on the battleground.
- The soldier comes from the Latin word sal dare (to give salt).
- The Doctor angrily berates the soldier for killing the creature.
- Soldiers killing enemy soldiers in battle is routine and unexceptional.
- He used the term "soldier" there to describe members of the Navy, Air Force, Marines and Coast Guard.
- "Warrior - One whose occupation is warfare; a fighting man ... applied to ... uncivilized peoples, for whom the designation soldier would be inappropriate."
- DOBBS: I'm not going to speak for the general, but I got to believe he's shuttering as you use the term soldier -- because these are not soldiers, these are terrorists.
- In short ... re-assign if by staying in the current position, the soldier is at risk (And being gay in a Muslim country DOES qualify as being "at risk".) or combat readiness of a unit is compromised ...
- Â Being a soldier is as intrinsic to her as her orientation, perhaps more so, and I liked how deftly that balance was handled here, and the consequences of what happens when the balance was forever upset.
- Note that _sepoy_, as colloquially it is called, but _sipahee_, as in books it is often written, does not mean Hindoo or Hindoo soldier, but is simply the Hindoo word for _soldier_.] [Footnote 61: '_The laurelled majesty_,' &c.
- It was so with all the Boers; none understood the term soldier as applying to anybody except their enemy, while many considered it an insult to be called a soldier, as it implied, to a certain extent, that they were fighting for hire.
- When the soldier is acting as a soldier, they are executing the policies of others who in turn are ultimately answerable for the public order of their societies, the policies of a duly elected (or otherwise legitimate) authority. zyban Says:
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