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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