Synonyms for soldier
ˈsoʊl dʒərsol·dier

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1. soldierverb

   To continue.

   Synonyms:
   grunt, old sweat, Tommy, sweat

Princeton's WordNet

1. soldiernoun

   an enlisted man or woman who serves in an army

   "the soldiers stood at attention"

2. soldierverb

   a wingless sterile ant or termite having a large head and powerful jaws adapted for defending the colony

3. soldierverb

   serve as a soldier in the military

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1. • Enlisted Person
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1. soldiernoun

   Synonyms:
   warrior, fighting-man, man at arms

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1. soldiernoun

   Synonyms:
   warrior, private, cadet, recruit, veteran, cavalry, infantry, cohort, sepoy, chasseur, zouave, volunteer, conscript, myrmidon, cossack, guerrilla, trooper, skirmisher, grenadier, uhlan, dragoon

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1. List of paraphrases for "soldier":

   soldiers, troops, trooper, solider, soldat, servicemen, private, serviceman, military, welded, pvt., pte

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1. Ernest Hemingway:

   Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. Learning to suspend your imagination and live completely in the very second of the present with no before and no after is the greatest gift a soldier can acquire.

2. Su Tzu-yun:

   It helps boost a soldier’s courage and aggressiveness, if soldiers engage in a mission that is not suitable for firing weapons, they may also use bayonet as an alternative option.

3. Dwight D Eisenhower:

   I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

4. Vicente Lim:

   A civilian doing his work in the pursuit of national defense is just as much a soldier as a man in uniform, if not better; because patriotism is a moral quality which should be possessed by all.

5. Pierre Trudeau:

   There’s a lot of bleeding hearts around who just don’t like to see people with helmets and guns. All I can say is ‘go on and bleed.’ But it’s more important to keep law and order in this society than to be worried about weak-kneed people who don’t like the looks of a soldier’s helmet, how far would you go?