Definitions for soldiering

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soldiering sol·dier·ing

Spelling: [sohl-jer-ing]

IPA: /ˈsoʊl dʒər ɪŋ/

Soldiering is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 815 anagrams from letters in soldiering (degiilnors).

Definitions for soldiering

noun

1. the activity or career of a person who soldiers.
2. a person who serves in an army; a person engaged in military service.
3. an enlisted man or woman, as distinguished from a commissioned officer:
4. a person of military skill or experience:
5. a person who contends or serves in any cause:
6. Also called button man. Slang. a low-ranking member of a crime organization or syndicate.
7. 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.
8. a brick laid vertically with the narrower long face out. Compare rowlock (def 2).
9. Informal. a person who avoids work or pretends to work; loafer; malingerer.

verb (used without object)

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

Verb phrases

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

Origin of soldiering

First recorded in 1690-1700; soldier + -ing¹

Examples for soldiering

ABC is soldiering on with the series, even though, with the loss of Oh, it will be on creative life support.

But there are two other candidates as well who are soldiering along without any national attention.

He entered the army, and, after seven years of soldiering was discharged in 1859.

The headaches that had begun while he was soldiering were increasing.

We had every thing to learn, and this was our first lesson in soldiering.

As a teenager he developed a passion for soldiering, or, rather, the idea of it.

It is nothing to trouble you, because your soldiering is done, John; and greatly done.

The General, by the easiest of transitions, passed on to the subject of soldiering in India.

But the confusion points to more serious problems with how our society thinks about both sex and soldiering.

Reprinted with permission from WWII: A Chronicle of soldiering by James Jones, published by the University of Chicago Press.