soldier
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dʒər 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.
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.
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11.
soldier on, to persist steadfastly in one's work; persevere: to soldier on until the work is done.
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soldier (ˈsəʊldʒə) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a. a person who serves or has served in an army |
| b. Also called: common soldier a noncommissioned member of an army as opposed to a commissioned officer | |
| 2. | a person who works diligently for a cause |
| 3. | a low-ranking member of the Mafia or other organized crime ring |
| 4. | zoology |
| a. an individual in a colony of social insects, esp ants, that has powerful jaws adapted for defending the colony, crushing large food particles, etc | |
| b. (as modifier): soldier ant | |
| 5. | informal a strip of bread or toast that is dipped into a soft-boiled egg |
| —vb | |
| 6. | to serve as a soldier |
| 7. | obsolete, slang to malinger or shirk |
| [C13: from Old French soudier, from soude (army) pay, from Late Latin solidus a gold coin, from Latin: firm] | |
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Word Origin & History
soldier
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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Slang Dictionary
soldier definition
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
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Example sentences
They used the captured scientist and soldier avatars as hostages when the military approached.
Right now, an on-duty soldier cannot sue his medical doctors for malpractice.
Or suppose that you are a returned soldier, and it is a pal who has died.
Six months isn't even enough time to train a soldier, let alone get any use out of them.
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