Soldier (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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noun
  1. a person who serves in an army; a person engaged in military service.
  2. an enlisted person, 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. 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.
  8. a person who avoids work or pretends to work; loafer; malingerer.
verb (used without object)
  1. to act or serve as a soldier.
  2. to loaf while pretending to work; malinger: He was soldiering on the job.
Verb Phrases
  1. to persist steadfastly in one's work; persevere: to soldier on until the work is done.
noun
    • a person who serves or has served in an army
    • 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)
  5. a strip of bread or toast that is dipped into a soft-boiled egg
verb (intr)
  1. to serve as a soldier
  2. to malinger or shirk
Soldier (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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