Meaning of soldier | Babel Free

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1. A member of a ground-based army, of any rank, but especially an enlisted member
2. A tiny city in Monona County, Iowa.
3. A member of a ground-based army, of any rank, but especially an enlisted member.
   countable
4. Any member of a military, regardless of specialty
5. To continue to do something, especially when it is difficult or tedious; persevere: "As Russia decayed, these Siberians soldiered on, finding ways to live and enjoy life" (Jeffrey Tayler).
6. A tiny city in Jackson County, Kansas.
7. Any member of a military, regardless of specialty.
   broadly, countable, nonstandard
8. An enlisted member of a military service, as distinguished from a commissioned officer
9. A sexually undeveloped form of certain ants and termites, having a large head and powerful jaws that serve as fighting weapons.
10. An unincorporated community and coal town in Carter County, Kentucky.
11. An enlisted member of a military service, as distinguished from a commissioned officer.
    countable, formal
12. A guardsman
13. One who engages in a combat or struggle:belligerent, combatant, fighter, warrior.
14. An unincorporated community in Jefferson County, Pennsylvania.
15. A guardsman.
16. A member of the Salvation Army
17. a member (usually male) of an army, often one who is not an officer. The boy wants to be a soldier when he grows up. soldaat جُنْدي войник soldado voják der Soldat soldat στρατιώτηςsoldado sõdur سرباز sotilas soldatחייל सैनिक vojnika, ratnik katona prajurit hermaður soldato 軍人 군인 kareivis kareivis; karavīrs askar soldaatsoldatżołnierz سپاهى، عسكر ، پوځى soldado soldat солдат vojak vojak vojnik soldat ทหาร asker 士兵 солдат; рядовий فوج کا جوان، سپاہی người lính 士兵
    usually
18. A member of the Salvation Army.
19. to keep going despite difficulties etc. There have been several power-cuts in the office, but we are trying to soldier on (despite them). aanhou يَسْتَمِر رَغْم الصُّعوبات упорствам въпреки трудностите tocar o barco para a frente vytrvat durchhalten fortsætte ufortrødent συνεχίζω αποφασιστικά παρά τις δυσκολίες seguir adelante raskusi trotsima پايداري كردن jatkaa sitkeästi persévérer לִדבוֹק בַּמשִימָה दृढ़ता पूर्वक करते रहना “gurati” dalje, ne popuštati rendíthetetlenül tovább dolgozik beker...
    etc
20. A low-ranking gangster or member of a gang, especially the mafia, who engages in physical conflict.
21. One who serves in an army.
22. A piece of buttered bread (or toast), cut into a long thin strip for dipping into a soft-boiled egg.
    Australia, British, Ireland, New-Zealand
23. An enlisted person or a noncommissioned officer.
24. A term of approbation for a young boy.
25. An active, loyal, or militant follower of an organization.
26. Someone who fights or toils well.
    countable, figuratively
27. A nonreproductive ant or termite that has a large head and powerful jaws.
28. A red or cuckoo gurnard (Chelidonichthys cuculus).
29. To be or serve as a soldier.
30. 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.
31. A red herring (cured kipper with flesh turned red).
    dated, slang
32. A xiangqi piece that moves and captures by advancing one point. Once it has crossed the river, it may also move and capture one point horizontally.
33. A brick, for example in a course of brickwork, that is laid vertically on its shortest end (smallest face), so that its tallest and slimmest face faces the outside of the wall.

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Examples

“My friends and I saw a soldier questioning a man holding a bag with a gun in his pocket.”

“The Citizens in their rage, imagining that euery poſt in the Churche had bin one of yᵉ Souldyers, ſhot habbe or nabbe at randon uppe to the Roode lofte, and to the Chancell, leauing ſome of theyr arrowes ſticking in the Images.”

“I am a soldier and unapt to weep.”

“Captain Edward Carlisle, soldier as he was, martinet as he was, felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze, her alluring smile ; he could not tell what this prisoner might do.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Beside his egg was a plate of buttered toast, already cut up into soldiers.”

“[L]et 'em know how important it is to have Runyon Avenue soldiers up in our corners; their loyalty to us is worth more than any award is.”

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