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 Doctor angrily berates the soldier for killing the creature.
  • Soldiers killing enemy soldiers in battle is routine and unexceptional.

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