soldier
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.
to act or serve as a soldier.
Informal. to loaf while pretending to work; malinger: He was soldiering on the job.
soldier on, to persist steadfastly in one's work; persevere: to soldier on until the work is done.
Origin of soldier
1Other words from soldier
- sol·dier·ship, noun
- non·sol·dier, noun
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British Dictionary definitions for soldier
/ (ˈsəʊldʒə) /
a person who serves or has served in an army
Also called: common 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
to serve as a soldier
obsolete, slang to malinger or shirk
Origin of soldier
1Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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