Definition of soldier

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Soldier (n.) Especially, a private in military service, as distinguished from an officer..

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Swordsman :: Swordsman (n.) A soldier; a fighting man.
Mercenary :: Mercenary (a.) Acting for reward; serving for pay; paid; hired; hireling; venal; as, mercenary soldiers..
Pretorian :: Pretorian (n.) A soldier of the pretorian guard.
Sunup :: Sun-struck (a.) Overcome by, or affected with, sunstroke; as, sun-struck soldiers..
Carbine :: Carbine (n.) A short, light musket or rifle, esp. one used by mounted soldiers or cavalry..
Spook :: Spontoon (n.) A kind of half-pike, or halberd, formerly borne by inferior officers of the British infantry, and used in giving signals to the soldiers..
Zouave :: Zouave (n.) One of an active and hardy body of soldiers in the French service, originally Arabs, but now composed of Frenchmen who wear the Arab dress..
Lance :: Lance (n.) A soldier armed with a lance; a lancer.
Dead-pay :: Dead-pay (n.) Pay drawn for soldiers, or others, really dead, whose names are kept on the rolls..
Skirmisher :: Skirmisher (n.) Soldiers deployed in loose order, to cover the front or flanks of an advancing army or a marching column..
Hoplite :: Hoplite (n.) A heavy-armed infantry soldier.
Campaigner :: Campaigner (n.) One who has served in an army in several campaigns; an old soldier; a veteran.
Warfarer :: Warfarer (n.) One engaged in warfare; a military man; a soldier; a warrior.
Gallowglass :: Gallowglass (n.) A heavy-armed foot soldier from Ireland and the Western Isles in the time of Edward .
Soldiering :: Soldiering (n.) The act of serving as a soldier; the state of being a soldier; the occupation of a soldier.
Demilancer :: Demilancer (n.) A soldier of light cavalry of the 16th century, who carried a demilance..
Dismount :: Dismount (v. t.) To throw or remove from a horse; to unhorse; as, the soldier dismounted his adversary..
Soldier :: Soldier (v. i.) To serve as a soldier.
Volunteer :: Volunteer (a.) One who enters into service voluntarily, but who, when in service, is subject to discipline and regulations like other soldiers; -- opposed to conscript; specifically, a voluntary member of the organized militia of a country as distinguished from the standing army..
Draff :: Draff (n.) A selecting or detaching of soldiers from an army, or from any part of it, or from a military post; also from any district, or any company or collection of persons, or from the people at large; also, the body of men thus drafted..
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