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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
/ ˈ²õəʊ±ô»åÏôÉ™ /
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 ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
- ²õ´Ç±ôd¾±±ð°ù·²õ³ó¾±±è noun
- ²Ô´Ç²Ô·²õ´Ç±ôd¾±±ð°ù noun
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of soldier1
Example Sentences
A junta spokesperson later confirmed that soldiers had shot at the vehicles, saying they had not been notified that the convoy would be passing through and fired warning shots after it failed to stop.
The Israeli military says its forces opened fire because the vehicles were moving suspiciously towards soldiers without prior co-ordination and with their lights off.
It later emerged he had tackled the leader of the gunmen and saved the life of an SAS soldier.
The body of a fourth US soldier has been found, a week after going missing in Lithuania.
"I was really very excited to be in the Republican palace," one soldier told me as we walked down the grimy red carpet.
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