soldier
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: board-games
games
government
military
politics
war
xiangqi
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English soudeour, from Old French soudier or soudeour (“mercenary”), from Medieval Latin soldarius (“soldier (one having pay)”), from Late Latin solidus, a type of coin. Displaced Old English cempa (whence obsolete kemp).
(red herring): An allusion to soldiers' red uniforms; red herring is, reciprocally, a slang term for "soldier".
Inflected forms:
form: soldiers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: soldior
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: soldiour
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: souldier
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: souldior
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: souldiour
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: sojah
pos: noun
tags: alternative
pronunciation-spelling
form: soldiuh
pos: noun
tags: alternative
pronunciation-spelling
form: soldiers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: soldiering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: soldiered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: soldiered
pos: verb
tags: past
form: soldior
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: soldiour
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: souldier
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: souldior
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: souldiour
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: sojah
pos: verb
tags: alternative
pronunciation-spelling
form: soldiuh
pos: verb
tags: alternative
pronunciation-spelling
Senses:
gloss: A member of a ground-based army, of any rank, but especially an enlisted member.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: My friends and I saw a soldier questioning a man holding a bag with a gun in his pocket.
The Citizens in their rage, imagining that euery poſt in the Churche had bin one of yᵉ Souldyers, ſhot habbe or nabbe at randon uppe to the Roode lofte, and to the Chancell, leauing ſome of theyr arrowes ſticking in the Images.
I am a soldier and unapt to weep.
Captain Edward Carlisle, soldier as he was, martinet as he was, felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze, her alluring smile ; he could not tell what this prisoner might do.
Stanning, who was commissioned from Sandhurst in 2008 and has served in Afghanistan, is not the first soldier to bail out the organisers at these Games but will be among the most celebrated.
gloss: Any member of a military, regardless of specialty.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
countable
nonstandard
gloss: An enlisted member of a military service, as distinguished from a commissioned officer.
pos: noun
tags: countable
formal
examples: She saw a soldier while collecting her baggage at the airport.
It were meet that any one, before he came to be a captain, should have been a soldier.
gloss: A guardsman.
pos: noun
gloss: A member of the Salvation Army.
pos: noun
gloss: A low-ranking gangster or member of a gang, especially the mafia, who engages in physical conflict.
pos: noun
gloss: A piece of buttered bread (or toast), cut into a long thin strip for dipping into a soft-boiled egg.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
Ireland
New-Zealand
UK
examples: Beside his egg was a plate of buttered toast, already cut up into soldiers.
gloss: A term of approbation for a young boy.
pos: noun
gloss: Someone who fights or toils well.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
examples: [L]et 'em know how important it is to have Runyon Avenue soldiers up in our corners; their loyalty to us is worth more than any award is.
gloss: A red or cuckoo gurnard (Chelidonichthys cuculus).
pos: noun
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
gloss: A red herring (cured kipper with flesh turned red).
pos: noun
tags: dated
slang
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
gloss: A brick, for example in a course of brickwork, that is laid vertically on its shortest end (smallest face), so that its tallest and slimmest face faces the outside of the wall.
pos: noun
gloss: To continue steadfast; to keep striving.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To serve as a soldier.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To intentionally restrict labor productivity; to work at the slowest rate that goes unpunished.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To take a ride on (another person's horse) without permission.
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
examples: It was the first time I had ever “soldiered” a horse. Soldiering means using a horse without the owner's leave or knowledge. Two of our lost horses we never found. Probably some one was soldiering them!
Synonyms: digger
dogface
doughboy
GI
ground pounder
grunt
jarhead
jawan
lobster
Old Bill
old sweat
regular
serviceman
serviceperson
servicewoman
soldier
squaddie
sweat
tirailleur
Tommy
Tommy Atkins
trooper
warrior
Related words: battle buddy
brother-in-arms
comrade in arms
:Category:Military ranks
buffalo soldier
child soldier
chocolate soldier
Christian soldier
construction soldier
dog soldier
footsoldier
freshwater soldier
gallant soldier
horse soldier
junior soldier
nonsoldier
old soldier
presoldier
soldier ant
soldier bee
soldier of fortune
soldier on
toy soldier
plastic soldier
Derived words: armored soldier
buffalo soldier
Canadian soldier
child soldier
chocolate soldier
Christian soldier
come the old soldier
dead soldier
dog soldier
foot soldier
freshwater soldier
horse soldier
old soldier
plague soldier beetle
sea soldier
shaggy soldier
soldier beetle
soldierbush
soldier crab
soldierdom
soldieress
soldierfish
soldier fly
soldier-girl
soldierize
soldierless
soldier-like
soldierlike
soldier of misfortune
soldier-proof
soldier river barb
soldiership
soldier thistle
soldierwood
soldiery
straight as a soldier
summer soldier
supersoldier
tin soldier
water soldier
soldierly
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