Definitions for soldiers

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soldiers sol·dier

Spelling: [sohl-jer]

IPA: /ˈsoʊl dʒər/

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

You can make 337 anagrams from letters in soldiers (deilorss).

Definitions for soldiers

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 soldiers

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

Examples for soldiers

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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