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SOLDIER
soldier
(noun) a wingless sterile ant or termite having a large head and powerful jaws adapted for defending the colony
soldier
(noun) an enlisted man or woman who serves in an army; āthe soldiers stood at attentionā
soldier
(verb) serve as a soldier in the military
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
soldier (plural soldiers)
A member of an army, of any rank.
A private in military service, as distinguished from an officer.
A guardsman.
A member of the Salvation Army.
(British, New Zealand) A piece of buttered bread (or toast), cut into a long thin strip for dipping into a soft-boiled egg.
A term of affection for a young boy.
Someone who fights or toils well.
The red gunnard or cuckoo gurnard (Chelidonichthys cuculus).
One of the asexual polymorphic forms of termites, in which the head and jaws are very large and strong. The soldiers serve to defend the nest.
(slang, dated) A red herring (cured kipper with flesh turned red).
Synonyms
• (member of an army): grunt, sweat, old sweat, Tommy
Verb
soldier (third-person singular simple present soldiers, present participle soldiering, simple past and past participle soldiered)
(intransitive) To continue steadfast; to keep striving.
(intransitive) To serve as a soldier.
(intransitive) To intentionally restrict labor productivity; to work at the slowest rate that goes unpunished.
(transitive, slang) To take a ride on (another person's horse) without permission.
Usage notes
Originally from the way that conscripts may approach following orders. Usage less prevalent in the era of all-volunteer militaries.
Synonyms
• (work at slowest rate): dog it, goldbrick
Anagrams
• Delrios, serolid, solider
Proper noun
Soldier
A tiny city in Monona County, Iowa.
A tiny city in Jackson County, Kansas.
An unincorporated community and coal town in Carter County, Kentucky.
An unincorporated community in Jefferson County, Pennsylvania.
Anagrams
• Delrios, serolid, solider
Source: Wiktionary
Sol"dier, n. Etym: [OE. souldier, soudiour, souder, OF. soldier, soldoier, soldeier, sodoier, soudoier, soudier, fr. L. solidus a piece of money (hence applied to the pay of a soldier), fr. solidus solid. See Solid, and cf. Sold, n.]
1. One who is engaged in military service as an officer or a private; one who serves in an army; one of an organized body of combatants. I am a soldier and unapt to weep. Shak.
2. Especially, a private in military service, as distinguished from an officer. It were meet that any one, before he came to be a captain, should have been a soldier. Spenser.
3. A brave warrior; a man of military experience and skill, or a man of distinguished valor; -- used by way of emphasis or distinction. Shak.
4. (Zoƶl.)
Definition: The red or cuckoo gurnard (Trigla pini.) [Prov. Eng.]
5. (Zoƶl.)
Definition: One of the asexual polymorphic forms of white ants, or termites, in which the head and jaws are very large and strong. The soldiers serve to defend the nest. See Termite. Soldier beetle (Zoƶl.), an American carabid beetle (Chauliognathus Americanus) whose larva feeds upon other insects, such as the plum curculio.
– Soldier bug (Zoƶl.), any hemipterous insect of the genus Podisus and allied genera, as the spined soldier bug (Podius spinosus). These bugs suck the blood of other insects.
– Soldier crab (Zoƶl.) (a) The hermit crab. (b) The fiddler crab.
– Soldier fish (Zoƶl.), a bright-colored etheostomoid fish (Etheostoma coeruleum) found in the Mississippi River; -- called also blue darter, and rainbow darter.
– Soldier fly (Zoƶl.), any one of numerous species of small dipterous flies of the genus Stratyomys and allied genera. They are often bright green, with a metallic luster, and are ornamented on the sides of the back with markings of yellow, like epaulets or shoulder straps.
– Soldier moth (Zoƶl.), a large geometrid moth (Euschema militaris), having the wings bright yellow with bluish black lines and spots.
– Soldier orchis (Bot.), a kind of orchis (Orchis militaris).
Sol"dier, v. i.
1. To serve as a soldier.
2. To make a pretense of doing something, or of performing any task. [Colloq.U.S.]
Note: In this sense the vulgar pronounciation (so"jer) is jocosely preserved. It needs an opera glass to discover whether the leaders are pulling, or only soldiering. C. D. Warner.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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