soldier
//ˈsəʊld͡ʒə//
Forms
- Plural
- soldiers
- present (v1)
- soldier
- past (v2)
- soldiered
- past participle (v3)
- soldiered
- present participle
- soldiering
- 3rd person singular
- soldiers
Definitions
1.A member of a ground-based army, of any rank, but especially an enlisted member.
- I am a soldier and unapt to weep.
- My friends and I saw a soldier questioning a man holding a bag with a gun in his pocket.
- Stanning, who was commissioned from Sandhurst in 2008 and has served in Afghanistan, is not the first soldier to bail out the organisers at these Games but will be among the most celebrated.
2.An enlisted member of a military service, as distinguished from a commissioned officer.(formal)
- She saw a soldier while collecting her baggage at the airport.
- It were meet that any one, before he came to be a captain, should have been a soldier.
3.A guardsman.
- The soldier never got scars from battles.
- When were you a soldier?
4.A member of the Salvation Army.
- The soldier never got scars from battles.
- When were you a soldier?
1.To continue steadfast; to keep striving.
2.To intentionally restrict labor productivity; to work at the slowest rate that goes unpunished.
3.To take a ride on (another person's horse) without permission.(slang)
- It was the first time I had ever “soldiered” a horse. Soldiering means using a horse without the owner's leave or knowledge. Two of our lost horses we never found. Probably some one was soldiering them!
4.To serve as a soldier.
Frequency
Overall
Common· #1235
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Uncommon
- General reading & writing
- Common
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Uncommon
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English soudeour, from Old French soudier or soudeour (“mercenary”), from Medieval Latin soldarius (“soldier (one having pay)”), from Late Latin solidus, a type of coin.
Displaced Old English cempa (whence obsolete kemp).