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:
the soldiers’ mess and the officers’ mess.
3.
a person of military skill or experience:
George Washington was a great soldier.
4.
a person who contends or serves in any cause:
a soldier of the Lord.
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 (used without object)
9.
to act or serve as a soldier.
10.
Informal. to loaf while pretending to work; malinger:
He was soldiering on the job.
Verb phrases
11.
soldier on, to persist steadfastly in one’s work; persevere:
to soldier on until the work is done.
noun
1.
a person who serves or has served in an army
Also called common soldier. a noncommissioned member of an army as opposed to a commissioned officer
2.
a person who works diligently for a cause
3.
a low-ranking member of the Mafia or other organized crime ring
4.
(zoology)
an individual in a colony of social insects, esp ants, that has powerful jaws adapted for defending the colony, crushing large food particles, etc
(as modifier): soldier ant
5.
(informal) a strip of bread or toast that is dipped into a soft-boiled egg
verb (intransitive)
6.
to serve as a soldier
7.
(obsolete, slang) to malinger or shirk
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