English Dictionary

soldier

/ˈsəʊld͡ʒə/

noun

A member of a ground-based army, of any rank. / (by extension, nonstandard) Any member of a military, regardless of specialty.

The soldier fought bravely on the battlefield.

意味（1）

A member of a ground-based army, of any rank.

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.

意味（2）

(by extension, nonstandard) Any member of a military, regardless of specialty.

意味（3）

An enlisted member of a military service, as distinguished from a commissioned officer.

It were meet that any one, before he came to be a captain, should have been a soldier.

意味（4）

A guardsman.

意味（5）

A member of the Salvation Army.

意味（6）

A low-ranking gangster or member of a gang, especially the mafia, who engages in physical conflict.

意味（7）

(Britain, Australia, New Zealand) A piece of buttered bread (or toast), cut into a long thin strip for dipping into a soft-boiled egg.

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

意味（8）

A term of approbation for a young boy.

意味（9）

Someone who fights or toils well.

[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.

意味（10）

The red or cuckoo gurnard (Chelidonichthys cuculus).

意味（11）

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.

意味（12）

(slang, dated) A red herring (cured kipper with flesh turned red).