soldier
noun
1 soldier
An enlisted man or woman who serves in an army.
Roget 726: combatant; disputant, controversialist, polemic, litigant, belligerent; competitor, rival, corrival†; fighter, assailant; champion, Paladin; mosstrooper†, swashbuckler fire eater, duelist, bully, bludgeon man, rough. prize fighter, pugilist, boxer, bruiser, the fancy, gladiator, athlete, wrestler; fighting-cock, game-cock; warrior, soldier, fighting man, Amazon, man at arms, armigerent†; campaigner, veteran; swordsman, sabreur†, redcoat, military man, Rajput. armed force, troops, soldiery, military forces, sabaoth†, the army, standing army, regulars, the line, troops of the line, militia, yeomanry, volunteers, trainband, fencible†; auxiliary, bersagliere†, brave; garde-nationale, garde-royale [Fr.]; minuteman [U.S.]; auxiliary forces, reserve forces; reserves, posse comitatus [Lat.], national guard, gendarme, beefeater; guards, guardsman; yeomen of the guard, life guards, household troops. janissary; myrmidon; Mama, Mameluke; spahee†, spahi†, Cossack, Croat, Pandoz. irregular, guerilla, partisan, condottiere†; franctireur [Fr.], tirailleur†, bashi-bazouk; [guerilla organization names: list], vietminh, vietcong; shining path; contras; huk, hukbalahap. mercenary, soldier of fortune; hired gun, gunfighter, gunslinger; bushwhacker, free lance, companion; Hessian. hit man torpedo, soldier. levy, draught; Landwehr [G.], Landsturm [G.]; conscript, recruit, cadet, raw levies. infantry, infantryman, private, private soldier, foot soldier; Tommy Atkins†, rank and file, peon, trooper, sepoy†, legionnaire, legionary, cannon fodder, food for powder; officer etc. (commander) 745; subaltern, ensign, standard bearer; spearman, pikeman†; spear bearer; halberdier†, lancer; musketeer, carabineer†, rifleman, jager [G.], sharpshooter, yager†, skirmisher; grenadier, fusileer†; archer, bowman. horse and foot; horse soldier; cavalry, horse, artillery, horse artillery, light horse, voltigeur [Fr.], uhlan, mounted rifles, dragoon, hussar; light dragoon, heavy dragoon; heavy; cuirassier [Fr.]; Foot Guards, Horse Guards. gunner, cannoneer, bombardier, artilleryman†, matross†; sapper, sapper and miner; engineer; light infantry, rifles, chasseur [Fr.], zouave; military train, coolie. army, corps d'armee [Fr.], host, division, battalia†, column, wing, detachment, garrison, flying column, brigade, regiment, corps, battalion, sotnia†, squadron, company, platoon, battery, subdivision, section, squad; piquet, picket, guard, rank, file; legion, phalanx, cohort; cloud of skirmishers. war horse, charger, destrier. marine, man-of-war's man etc. (sailor) 269; navy, wooden walls, naval forces, fleet, flotilla, armada, squadron. [ships of war] man-of-war; destroyer; submarine; minesweeper; torpedo-boat, torpedo-destroyer; patrol torpedo boat, PT boat; torpedo-catcher, war castle, H. M.S.; battleship, battle wagon, dreadnought, line of battle ship, ship of the line; aircraft carrier, carrier. flattop [Coll.]; helicopter carrier; missile platform, missile boat; ironclad, turret ship, ram, monitor, floating battery; first-rate, frigate, sloop of war, corvette, gunboat, bomb vessel; flagship, guard ship, cruiser; armored cruiser, protected cruiser; privateer. [supporting ships] tender; store ship, troop ship; transport, catamaran; merchant marine. ... show more
is a specific kind of: enlisted person.
is a broader term that covers: Gurkha | Anzac | cannon fodder, fodder, fresh fish | cavalryman, trooper | cavalryman, trooper | color bearer, standard-bearer | Confederate soldier | lobsterback, redcoat | flanker | goldbrick | Green Beret | guardsman | Highlander | foot soldier, footslogger, infantryman, marcher | Janissary | jawan | legionary, legionnaire | man-at-arms | marine | militiaman | orderly | para, paratrooper | peacekeeper | pistoleer | poilu | point man | ranker | regular | reservist | rifleman | Section Eight | tank driver, tanker | territorial | Unknown Soldier | Wac | Uriah ... show more.
instances of which are: Allen, Ethan Allen | Bayard, Chevalier de Bayard, Pierre de Terrail, Pierre Terrail, Seigneur de Bayard | Borgia, Cesare Borgia | Cyrano de Bergerac, Savinien Cyrano de Bergerac | Higginson, Thomas Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Storrow Higginson | Kosciusko, Kosciuszko, Tadeusz Andrzej Bonawentura Kosciuszko, Thaddeus Kosciusko | La Fayette, Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette | Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, T. E. Lawrence, Thomas Edward Lawrence | Henry Lee, Lee, Lighthorse Harry Lee | Mehemet Ali, Mohammed Ali, Muhammad Ali | Daniel Morgan, Morgan | Harry Hotspur, Hotspur, Percy, Sir Henry Percy | Juan Domingo Peron, Peron | Jan Christian Smuts, Smuts | Tancred ... show more.
derivation: soldiering, soldiership | soldierv1 | martial, soldierlike, soldierly, warriorlike.
Dutch: soldate, heilsoldate, soldaat, heilsoldaat
Polish: wojak, wojskowy, żołnierz
2 soldier
A wingless sterile ant or termite having a large head and powerful jaws adapted for defending the colony.
is a specific kind of: worker.
Dutch: soldaat
verb
1 soldier
Serve as a soldier in the military.
is a specific kind of: pass, spend.
derivation: soldiering, soldiership | military personnel, soldiery, troops | soldiern1.
Moby thesaurus: Amazon, GI, Tommy Atkins, aggressive, air serviceman, ant, army ant, bear arms, black ant, bold, brave, cannon fodder, carpenter ant, carry arms, clock watcher, combative, condottiere, continue, courageous, dauntless, do active duty, do duty, dodge, dog it, dogface, doughboy, doughfoot, drive, drudge, duck, duck duty, emmet, endure, enlisted man, eye-servant, fearless, fighter, fighting man, fire ant, food for powder, free lance, get out of, goldbrick, goldbricker, goof off, grind, guerrilla, halberdier, hoplite, house ant, infantryman, intrepid, keep at, keep going, keep on, legionary, malinger, malingerer, man-at-arms, martial, mercenary, militant, military man, navy man, not pull fair, old soldier, partisan, persevere, persist, pikeman, pismire, pugnacious, queen, recruit, red ant, rifle, rifleman, serve, serviceman, shirk, shirker, shoulder a gun, shoulder arms, skulk, skulker, slack, slacker, slave ant, slide out of, slip out of, sneak out of, soldier of fortune, soldierly, spearman, stalwart, supporter, swaddy, sweat, tax dodger, termite, trooper, truant, unafraid, valiant, valorous, warlike, warrior, warrioress, wear the uniform, welsh, welsher, worker ... show more.
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