Found 4 items, similar to soldier.
English → Indonesian (Kamus Landak)
Definition: soldier
prajurit
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: soldier
prajurit, serdadu, tentara
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: soldier
soldier
n 1: an enlisted man or woman who serves in an army;
“the
soldiers stood at attention”
2: a wingless sterile ant or termite having a large head and
powerful jaws adapted for defending the colony
soldier
v : serve as a soldier in the military
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Soldier
Soldier
\Sol"dier\, v. i.
1. To serve as a soldier.
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2. To make a pretense of doing something, or of performing
any task. [Colloq.U.S.]
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Note: In this sense the vulgar pronounciation (s[=o]"j[~e]r)
is jocosely preserved.
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It needs an opera glass to discover whether the
leaders are pulling, or only soldiering. --C. D.
Warner.
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Soldier
\Sol"dier\, n. [OE. souldier, soudiour, souder, OF.
soldier, soldoier, soldeier, sodoier, soudoier, soudier, fr.
L. solidus a piece of money (hence applied to the pay of a
soldier), fr. solidus solid. See
Solid, and cf.
Sold, n.]
1. One who is engaged in military service as an officer or a
private; one who serves in an army; one of an organized
body of combatants.
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I am a soldier and unapt to weep. --Shak.
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2. Especially, a private in military service, as
distinguished from an officer.
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It were meet that any one, before he came to be a
captain, should have been a soldier. --Spenser.
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3. A brave warrior; a man of military experience and skill,
or a man of distinguished valor; -- used by way of
emphasis or distinction. --Shak.
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4. (Zo["o]l.) The red or cuckoo gurnard (
Trigla pini.)
[Prov. Eng.]
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5. (Zo["o]l.) One of the asexual polymorphic forms of white
ants, or termites, in which the head and jaws are very
large and strong. The soldiers serve to defend the nest.
See
Termite.
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Soldier beetle (Zo["o]l.), an American carabid beetle
(
Chauliognathus Americanus) whose larva feeds upon other
insects, such as the plum curculio.
Soldier bug (Zo["o]l.), any hemipterous insect of the genus
Podisus and allied genera, as the spined soldier bug
(
Podius spinosus). These bugs suck the blood of other
insects.
Soldier crab (Zo["o]l.)
(a) The hermit crab.
(b) The fiddler crab.
Soldier fish (Zo["o]l.), a bright-colored etheostomoid fish
(
Etheostoma c[oe]ruleum) found in the Mississippi River;
-- called also
blue darter, and
rainbow darter.
Soldier fly (Zo["o]l.), any one of numerous species of
small dipterous flies of the genus
Stratyomys and allied
genera. They are often bright green, with a metallic
luster, and are ornamented on the sides of the back with
markings of yellow, like epaulets or shoulder straps.
Soldier moth (Zo["o]l.), a large geometrid moth (
Euschema militaris
), having the wings bright yellow with bluish
black lines and spots.
Soldier orchis (Bot.), a kind of orchis (
Orchis militaris
).
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