soldier\'s

[sohl-jer]

sol·dier

[sohl-jer]
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.
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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.
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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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Soldier's is always a great word to know.
So is ort. Does it mean:
a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc.
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
11.
soldier on, to persist steadfastly in one's work; persevere: to soldier on until the work is done.

Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English souldiour < Old French soudier, so(l)dier, equivalent to soulde pay (< Latin solidus; see sol2) + -ier -ier2

sol·dier·ship, noun
non·sol·dier, noun
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