In a war, soldiers are the people who do the fighting, on the ground, in planes, or from boats. Soldier is also a verb that means to serve in the military, or to continue on through difficult times.
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.
Noun
a wingless sterile ant or termite having a large head and powerful jaws adapted for defending the colony
Noun
an enlisted man or woman who serves in an army; "the soldiers stood at attention"
Verb
serve as a soldier in the military
n.
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.
n.
Especially, a private in military service, as
distinguished from an officer.
n.
A brave warrior; a man of military experience and skill,
or a man of distinguished valor; -- used by way of emphasis or
distinction.
n.
The red or cuckoo gurnard (Trigla pini.)
n.
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.
v. i.
To serve as a soldier.
v. i.
To make a pretense of doing something, or of performing
any task.
Soldier
I am a soldier and unapt to weep.2.
It were meet that any one, before he came to be a captain, should have been a soldier.3.
Soldier
It needs an opera glass to discover whether the leaders are pulling, or only soldiering.
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.
To serve as a soldier.
Usage Examples
The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature.
I don't imagine Heads of Government would ever be able to say I'm not an economist therefore I can't take decisions on matters of the economy I'm not a soldier I can't take decisions on matters of defence I'm not an educationist so I can't take decisions about education.
Here's a news flash: No soldier gives his life. That's not the way it works. Most soldiers who make a conscious decision to place themselves in harm's way do it to protect their buddies. They do it because of the bonds of friendship - and it goes so much deeper than friendship.
Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye.
On the battlefield, the military pledges to leave no soldier behind. As a nation, let it be our pledge that when they return home, we leave no veteran behind.
My father was a soldier and my mother was a great mover. She once counted up how many places she had lived in during the first 25 years of her marriage and it came to 20.
Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace.
Every soldier must know, before he goes into battle, how the little battle he is to fight fits into the larger picture, and how the success of his fighting will influence the battle as a whole.
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Other Usage ExamplesI wrote those poems for myself, as a way of being a soldier here in this country. I didn't know the poems would travel. I didn't go to Lebanon until two years ago, but people told me that many Arabs had memorized these poems and translated them into Arabic.
A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.
A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.
Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.
So I would say God hates war, but God loves every soldier.
Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilised folk to despise war.
I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.
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