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soldier
[ sohl-jer ]
noun
- a person who serves in an army; a person engaged in military service.
- an enlisted person, as distinguished from a commissioned officer:
the soldiers' mess and the officers' mess.
- a person of military skill or experience:
George Washington was a great soldier.
- a person who contends or serves in any cause:
a soldier of the Lord.
- Also called button man. Slang. a low-ranking member of a crime organization or syndicate.
- Entomology.
- a member of a caste of sexually underdeveloped female ants or termites specialized, as with powerful jaws, to defend the colony from invaders.
- a similar member of a caste of worker bees, specialized to protect the hive.
- a brick laid vertically with the narrower long face out. Compare rowlock ( def 2 ).
- Informal. a person who avoids work or pretends to work; loafer; malingerer.
verb (used without object)
- to act or serve as a soldier.
- Informal. to loaf while pretending to work; malinger:
He was soldiering on the job.
verb phrase
- to persist steadfastly in one's work; persevere:
to soldier on until the work is done.
soldier
/ ˈəʊə /
noun
- a person who serves or has served in an army
- Also calledcommon soldier a noncommissioned member of an army as opposed to a commissioned officer
- a person who works diligently for a cause
- a low-ranking member of the Mafia or other organized crime ring
- zoology
- an individual in a colony of social insects, esp ants, that has powerful jaws adapted for defending the colony, crushing large food particles, etc
- ( as modifier )
soldier ant
- informal.a strip of bread or toast that is dipped into a soft-boiled egg
verb
- to serve as a soldier
- obsolete.to malinger or shirk
Other Word Forms
- DZd· noun
- ԴDz·DZd noun
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of soldier1
Example Sentences
It marked the moment, 80 years ago, when American and Soviet soldiers met on the Elbe River in the dying days of World War Two.
Next to him, a fellow soldier scanned the sky with binoculars.
After Mexican troops attacked U.S. soldiers in Texas on April 25, 1846, the U.S. formally declared war.
Benin's government has admitted that 54 soldiers were killed by suspected jihadists in the country's north last week near the borders with Burkina Faso and Niger.
The victims weren't soldiers or officials, but civilians on holiday in one of India's most picturesque valleys.
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