Definitions for soldier

• Definition
• Anagrams (277)

soldier sol·dier

Spelling: [sohl-jer]

IPA: /ˈsoʊl dʒər/

Soldier is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 277 anagrams from letters in soldier (deilors).

Definitions for soldier

noun

1. a person who serves in an army; a person engaged in military service.
2. an enlisted man or woman, as distinguished from a commissioned officer:
3. a person of military skill or experience:
4. a person who contends or serves in any cause:
5. Also called button man. Slang. a low-ranking member of a crime organization or syndicate.
6. Entomology. a member of a caste of sexually underdeveloped female ants or termites specialized, as with powerful jaws, to defend the colony from invaders. a similar member of a caste of worker bees, specialized to protect the hive.
7. a brick laid vertically with the narrower long face out. Compare rowlock (def 2).
8. Informal. a person who avoids work or pretends to work; loafer; malingerer.

Verb phrases

1. soldier on, to persist steadfastly in one's work; persevere:

verb (used without object)

1. to act or serve as a soldier.
2. Informal. to loaf while pretending to work; malinger:

Origin of soldier

1250-1300; Middle English souldiour Old French soudier, so(l)dier, equivalent to soulde pay (Latin solidus; see sol²) + -ier -ier

Examples for soldier

The families had gathered that Sunday to remember Ali Bazzal, a soldier whom the Nusra Front declared they had executed on Dec. 6.

I am proud of you, Sidney; you came through it like a soldier.

Francis then supposedly told the officer that he was the one giving orders now and ordered a cappuccino for the Swiss soldier.

The story of the soldier returning home to a country he no longer recognizes is a very old one.

A soldier in the service of ideals and aspirations that formed his core.

"Up the Main Street, and across the drawbridge," said the soldier, goodnaturedly.

There is a Telling of that passing and of that soldier which has to do with the gold that was never found.

But here are three strangers, and one, as I take it, a soldier fresh from service.

In their midst stands a soldier with the Lebanese armed forces in a red beret, sporting an assault rifle and an unblinking stare.

"Then you may bid farewell to your bed, soldier," said Hordle John.