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sol⋅dier

  [sohl-jer]
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–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.
—Verb phrase
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 sol 2 ) + -ier -ier 2

Related forms:
sol⋅dier⋅ship, noun
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Slang Dictionary
soldier

  1. n.
    a liquor bottle; an empty liquor bottle. (See also dead soldier.) : Toss your soldier into the garbage, please.
  2. n.
    a whole tobacco cigarette. : The old man almost fell over trying to pick up the soldier from the sidewalk.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

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.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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