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sol·dier    Audio Help   [sohl-jer] Pronunciation Key
–noun
1.a person who serves in an army; a person engaged in military service.
2.an enlisted man or woman, as distinguished from a commissioned officer: the soldiers' mess and the officers' mess.
3.a person of military skill or experience: George Washington was a great soldier.
4.a person who contends or serves in any cause: a soldier of the Lord.
5.Also called button man. Slang. a low-ranking member of a crime organization or syndicate.
6.Entomology. a member of a caste of sexually underdeveloped female ants or termites specialized, as with powerful jaws, to defend the colony from invaders.
7.a brick laid vertically with the narrower long face out. Compare rowlock (def. 2).
8.Informal. a person who avoids work or pretends to work; loafer; malingerer.
–verb (used without object)
9.to act or serve as a soldier.
10.Informal. to loaf while pretending to work; malinger: He was soldiering on the job.
11.soldier on, to persist steadfastly in one's work; persevere: to soldier on until the work is done.

[Origin: 1250–1300; ME souldiour < OF soudier, so(l)dier, equiv. to soulde pay (< L solidus; see sol2) + -ier -ier2]

sol·dier·ship, noun
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sol·dier    Audio Help   (sōl'jər)  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
  1. One who serves in an army.
  2. An enlisted person or a noncommissioned officer.
  3. An active, loyal, or militant follower of an organization.
    1. A sexually undeveloped form of certain ants and termites, having large heads and powerful jaws.
    2. One of a group of honeybees that swarm in defense of a hive.

intr.v.   sol·diered, sol·dier·ing, sol·diers
  1. To be or serve as a soldier.
  2. To make a show of working in order to escape punishment.


[Middle English soudier, mercenary, from Anglo-Norman soudeour, soldeier and Old French soudoior, soudier, both from Old French sol, soud, sou, from Late Latin solidum, soldum, pay, from solidus, solidus; see solidus.]

sol'dier·ship' n.
Word History: Why do soldiers fight? One answer is hidden in the word soldier itself. Its first recorded occurrence is found in a work composed around 1300, the word having come into Middle English (as soudier) from Old French soudoior and Anglo-Norman soudeour. The Old French word, first recorded in the 12th century, is derived from sol or soud, Old French forms of Modern French sou. There is no longer a French coin named sou, but the meaning of sou alerts us to the fact that money is involved. Indeed, Old French sol referred to a coin and also meant "pay," and a soudoior was a man who fought for pay. This was a concept worth expressing in an era when many men were not paid for fighting but did it in service to a feudal superior. Thus soldier is parallel to the word mercenary, which goes back to Latin mercēnnārius, derived from mercēs, "pay," and meaning "working for pay." The word could also be used as a noun, one of whose senses was "a soldier of fortune."

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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
soldier  (n.)
c.1300, from O.Fr. soudier "one who serves in the army for pay," from M.L. soldarius "a soldier" (cf. It. soldato and Fr. soldat "soldier," which is borrowed from It.), lit. "one having pay," from L.L. soldum, from acc. of L. solidus, a Roman gold coin (see solidus). The verb meaning "to serve as a soldier" is first recorded 1647; to soldier on "persist doggedly" is attested from 1954.

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soldier

noun
1. an enlisted man or woman who serves in an army; "the soldiers stood at attention" 
2. a wingless sterile ant or termite having a large head and powerful jaws adapted for defending the colony 

verb
1. serve as a soldier in the military 

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Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
soldier [ˈsəuldʒə] noun
a member (usually male) of an army, often one who is not an officer
Example: The boy wants to be a soldier when he grows up.
Arabic: جُنْدي
Chinese (Simplified): 士兵
Chinese (Traditional): 士兵
Czech: voják
Danish: soldat
Dutch: soldaat
Estonian: sõdur
Finnish: sotilas
French: soldat
German: der Soldat
Greek: στρατιώτης
Hungarian: katona
Icelandic: hermaður
Indonesian: prajurit
Italian: soldato
Japanese: 軍人
Korean: 군인, 병사
Latvian: kareivis; karavīrs
Lithuanian: kareivis
Norwegian: soldat
Polish: żołnierz
Portuguese (Brazil): soldado
Portuguese (Portugal): soldado
Romanian: soldat
Russian: солдат
Slovak: vojak
Slovenian: vojak
Spanish: soldado
Swedish: soldat
Turkish: asker
See also: soldier on

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Soldier Pond, ME Zip code(s): 04781

Soldier, IA (city, FIPS 73785) Location: 41.98461 N, 95.77963 W
Population (1990): 205 (112 housing units)
Area: 0.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 51572

Soldier, KS (city, FIPS 66175) Location: 39.53784 N, 95.96460 W
Population (1990): 135 (56 housing units)
Area: 0.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 66540

U.S. Gazetteer, U.S. Census Bureau
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

Soldier

So"dger\, n. & v. i. Var. of Soldier. [Dial. or Slang]
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Soldier

So"ger\, n. & v. i. Var. of Soldier. [Dial. or Slang] --R. H. Dana, Jr.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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