Soldier

Noun

 * 1) A member of an army, of any rank.
 * 2) A guardsman.
 * 3) A member of the Salvation Army.
 * 4)  A piece of buttered bread (or toast), cut into a long thin strip and dipped into a soft-boiled egg.
 * 5) A term of affection for a young boy.

Synonyms

 * grunt, sweat, old sweat, Tommy

Verb

 * 1) To continue.
 * 2) To be a soldier.
 * 3) To intentionally restrict labor productivity; to work at the slowest rate that goes unpunished. Has also been called dogging it or goldbricking. (Originally from the way that conscripts may approach following orders. Usage less prevalent in the era of all-volunteer militaries.)

Derived terms

 * soldierly

Thesaurus
Amazon, GI, Tommy Atkins, aggressive, air serviceman, ant, army ant, bear arms, black ant, bold, brave, cannon fodder, carpenter ant, carry arms, clock watcher, combative, condottiere, continue, courageous, dauntless, do active duty, do duty, dodge, dog it, dogface, doughboy, doughfoot, drive, drudge, duck, duck duty, emmet, endure, enlisted man, eye-servant, fearless, fighter, fighting man, fire ant, food for powder, free lance, get out of, goldbrick, goldbricker, goof off, grind, guerrilla, halberdier, hoplite, house ant, infantryman, intrepid, keep at, keep going, keep on, legionary, malinger, malingerer, man-at-arms, martial, mercenary, militant, military man, navy man, not pull fair, old soldier, partisan, persevere, persist, pikeman, pismire, pugnacious, queen, recruit, red ant, rifle, rifleman, serve, serviceman, shirk, shirker, shoulder a gun, shoulder arms, skulk, skulker, slack, slacker, slave ant, slide out of, slip out of, sneak out of, soldier of fortune, soldierly, spearman, stalwart, supporter, swaddy, sweat, tax dodger, termite, trooper, truant, unafraid, valiant, valorous, warlike, warrior, warrioress, wear the uniform, welsh, welsher, worker

Pronunciation

 * sōl'jə(r), /ˈsəʊldʒə(r)/, /"s@UldZ@(r)/
 * sŏl'jə(r), /ˈsɒldʒə(r)/, /"sQldZ@(r)/
 * sŏl'jə(r), /ˈsɒldʒə(r)/, /"sQldZ@(r)/
 * sŏl'jə(r), /ˈsɒldʒə(r)/, /"sQldZ@(r)/

Noun

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: ,
 * Armenian:
 * Basque: soldadu
 * Breton: soudard
 * Catalan: : soldat
 * Chamicuro:
 * Chinese:, ,
 * Croatian:, ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:, sõjaväelane
 * Faroese: hermaður
 * Finnish:, solttu
 * French:
 * Georgian:
 * German: ,
 * Greek: (stratiótis)
 * Haitian Creole:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: सैनिक
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian: prajurit, tentara
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, , 兵隊
 * Javanese: prajurit
 * Korean: 군인
 * Kurdish: باڵباز
 * Sorani: عه‌سکه‌ر, چه‌کمه‌بۆر, سه‌رباز
 * Latin:


 * Latvian: kareivis
 * Lithuanian: karys
 * Lojban:
 * Lower Sorbian:
 * Macedonian:
 * Malay:
 * Manx:
 * Mongolian: цэрэг
 * Navajo:
 * Persian: سرباز
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romagnolo: suldèd, suldèda
 * Romanian:, ,
 * Russian:, , , , вояка coll., солдафон coll.
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbian: vojnik, vojnoslužac
 * Sicilian: suldàtu, surdàtu
 * Slovene: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Sundanese:
 * Taos: nòdu’úna
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan: དམག་མི།
 * Turkish:
 * Vietnamese: người lính
 * Volapük: soldat,  hisoldat,  jisoldat
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian:
 * Yiddish: ,


 * Greek: εθνοφρουρός, φρουρός,
 * Italian:


 * Japanese: 警備員


 * Japanese:


 * : (júndi)
 * : 군인 (gunin)


 * : laoch, gaisgeach
 * : soldat (1,3), frälsningssoldat  (3)
 * : సైనికుడు (sainikuDu)
 * : ทหาร (taharn)
 * : ทหาร (taharn)

Verb

 * Esperanto:


 * Japanese: 従軍する

Anagrams

 * solider