soldier

Betekenis (Engels)

1. A member of a ground-based army, of any rank, but especially an enlisted member.
2. Any member of a military, regardless of specialty.
3. An enlisted member of a military service, as distinguished from a commissioned officer.
4. A guardsman.
5. A member of the Salvation Army.
6. A low-ranking gangster or member of a gang, especially the mafia, who engages in physical conflict.
7. A piece of buttered bread (or toast), cut into a long thin strip for dipping into a soft-boiled egg.
8. A term of approbation for a young boy.
9. Someone who fights or toils well.
10. The red or cuckoo gurnard (Chelidonichthys cuculus).
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.
12. (slang) A red herring (cured kipper with flesh turned red).
13. 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.
14. 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.

soldaat

militair

heilsoldate

soldate

heilsoldaat

military man

enlisted man

fighting man

brave person

serve as a soldier

military personnel

quarrelsome person

armyman

military person

go soldiering

take up the arms

brick-on-end

blue coat

man at arms

brick laid on end

spear thrower

female soldier

Frequentie

Uitgesproken als (IPA)

/ˈsəʊld͡ʒə/

From Middle English soudeour, from Old French soudier or soudeour (“mercenary”), from Medieval Latin soldarius (“soldier (one having pay)”), from Late Latin solidus, a type of coin. Displaced Old English cempa (whence obsolete kemp). (red herring): An allusion to soldiers' red uniforms; red herring is, reciprocally, a slang term for "soldier".

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