Synonyms for infantry
ˈɪn fən triin·fant·ry

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1. infantry, footnoun

   an army unit consisting of soldiers who fight on foot

   "there came ten thousand horsemen and as many fully-armed foot"

   Synonyms:
   fundament, understructure, base, human foot, ft, foundation, metrical unit, metrical foot, groundwork, substructure, foot, invertebrate foot, pes, animal foot

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1. • Army Unit
   • Military

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:4.0 / 1 vote

1. infantrynoun

   Synonyms:
   foot-soldiers

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1. List of paraphrases for "infantry":

   infantrymen, foot

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1. General Mattis:

   The problem [with revising the Counter-Insurgency doctrine] would have been if you only had people working the content who knew infantry, the cockpit of a plane, or the bridge of a ship.

2. Defense Secretary Ash Carter:

   This means that as long as they qualify and meet the standards, women will now be able to contribute to our mission in ways they could not before. They'll be able to drive tanks, give orders, lead infantry soldiers into combat, there will be no exceptions.

3. Gary Li:

   The main advantage of playing around with the marines is that they have a higher concentration of specialists, act well as light infantry, have good esprit de corps, and are nimble enough to be deployed over long distances if needed.

4. Serhii Cherevatyi:

   In the Bakhmut direction, there is only Wagner, when there is lack of forces, they are being reinforced by Russian airborne troops, sometimes by infantry, we knock them out. In fact, there will be no more Wagner fighters in a little while if they continue the same dynamics.

5. Eduard Yakubovsky:

   Before, in the territory of the Donetsk region, there were 55 local courts ... employing 3,262 people. That's the size of a full-fledged mechanized infantry unit, the number of judges has now been reduced fourfold.