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. Defense Secretary Mark Esper:

   At the direction of the Commander in Chief, I have authorized the deployment of an infantry battalion from the Immediate Response Force of the 82nd Airborne Division( in Fort Bragg, North Carolina) to the U.S. Central Command area of operations in response to recent events in Iraq.

2. Richard Casper:

   It was so hard to comprehend what happened because we go to work the next day like nothing happened, when you're in the infantry, they have to strip away all your vulnerabilities. They have to, because( otherwise) you're not going to survive in war.

3. 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.

4. Mike Burns:

   We're an infantry brigade, our primary mission is ground fighting. This is as real as it gets.

5. 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.