Word Finder - soldier

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A member of an army, of any rank.

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A private in military service, as distinguished from an officer.

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A guardsman.

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A member of the Salvation Army.

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A piece of buttered bread (or toast), cut into a long thin strip for dipping into a soft-boiled egg.

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A term of affection for a young boy.

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Someone who fights or toils well.

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The red or cuckoo gurnard (Chelidonichthys cuculus).

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One of the asexual polymorphic forms of termites, in which the head and jaws are very large and strong. The soldiers serve to defend the nest.

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A red herring (cured kipper with flesh turned red).

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To continue steadfast; to keep striving.

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To serve as a soldier.

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To intentionally restrict labor productivity; to work at the slowest rate that goes unpunished.

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To take a ride on (another person's horse) without permission.

He was a brave soldier and a wise teacher.

Every dead soldier has a face, a story, and a bereaved family.

Alder's Bridge was re-named Brockville, after the first soldier fatality of World War Two!

It was not likely for the paths of a soldier and a member of the political elite to cross paths, but he was the closest thing she had ever had to a friend since leaving her home at the age of four.

The soldier looked over his subdued rank then at Dan and Elise.

Prince Andrew took out his purse and gave the soldier three gold pieces.

A fat major skirted a bush, puffing and falling out of step; a soldier who had fallen behind, his face showing alarm at his defection, ran at a trot, panting to catch up with his company.

The medic and another man placed the injured soldier on a portable litter and rose, ready.

The soldier fell, got up, and ran away.

The soldier to whom the laughers referred was Dolokhov.

He was not old enough to be a soldier, but he could be a scout--and a good scout he was.

William Gifford Palgrave (1826-1888) went to India as a soldier after a brilliant career at Charterhouse School and Trinity College, Oxford; but, having become a Roman Catholic, he was ordained priest and served as a Jesuit missionary in India, Syria, and Arabia.

He said to a soldier who stood at the door, "Tell your story again."

The soldier flashed a smile as he started down the narrow pathway lining the canal.

The handsome young soldier who had brought the wood, setting his arms akimbo, began stamping his cold feet rapidly and deftly on the spot where he stood.

The regimental commander and Major Ekonomov had stopped beside a bridge, letting the retreating companies pass by them, when a soldier came up and took hold of the commander's stirrup, almost leaning against him.

The shapely figure of the fair-haired soldier, with his clear blue eyes, stepped forward from the ranks, went up to the commander in chief, and presented arms.

The soldier with the swollen cheek looked angrily at the cavalry singers.

When the soldier is hit by a cannonball, rags are as becoming as purple.

Hitherto General Roca had been regarded only in his capacity as a soldier, and not from the point of view of an administrator.

In vain the fiery young soldier strove to break loose from the shackles which hampered him.

Planey looked from Brady to the soldier before motioning them down another hallway and quickening his step.

A single PMF soldier in gray stood waiting.

What is this? shouted the regimental commander, thrusting forward his jaw and pointing at a soldier in the ranks of the third company in a greatcoat of bluish cloth, which contrasted with the others.

The soldier was pale, his blue eyes looked impudently into the commander's face, and his lips were smiling.

Then a cheerful soldier ran up, begging a little fire for the infantry.

Just then a commissariat soldier, a hospital orderly, came in from the next room, marching stiffly, and drew up in front of Rostov.

Lana asked suddenly, surprised to see the elite soldier had it at her waist.

The other soldier cursed.

The soldier led them up a set of stairs winding around smaller buildings and into a building apart from the rest.

A few minutes later, the soldier reappeared with a tall man with a sharp gaze and quick smile.

But Charles, though a brave soldier and good military organizer, was neither a capable statesman nor a skilful general.

As a soldier Bern was remarkable for his excellent handling of artillery and the rapidity of his marches.

Though himself a plain and almost illiterate soldier, he was a founder of schools, and he also provided medical attendance for the poor of Rome, by appointing a physician for each of the fourteen districts of the city.

Like Napoleon, with whom he has often been compared, he was equally illustrious as a soldier, a statesman, an orator, a legislator and an administrator.

A son of William Thistlewood, and born at Tupholme in Lincolnshire, young Thistlewood passed his early years in a desultory fashion; he became a soldier and visited France and America, imbibing republican opinions abroad and running into debt at home.

Prince Andrew rode up and was just putting his question to a soldier when his attention was diverted by the desperate shrieks of the woman in the vehicle.

It's a shame for a soldier to steal; a soldier must be honest, honorable, and brave, but if he robs his fellows there is no honor in him, he's a scoundrel.

Every soldier felt glad to know that to the unknown place where he was going, many more of our men were going too.

He now saw clearly the figure of a red-haired gunner with his shako knocked awry, pulling one end of a mop while a French soldier tugged at the other.

The submarine bumped against the dock on the other side of the river, and the soldier turned it off.

His capabilities as a soldier have been generally recognized by competent authorities.

He declared that "a soldier who fights in the ranks does not require half so much courage as a footpad"--"that honor and religion have never stood in the way of a well-considered and a firm resolve."

One soldier, in his fear, uttered the senseless cry, "Cut off!" that is so terrible in battle, and that word infected the whole crowd with a feeling of panic.

Captain Tushin, having given orders to his company, sent a soldier to find a dressing station or a doctor for the cadet, and sat down by a bonfire the soldiers had kindled on the road.

A soldier on the march is hemmed in and borne along by his regiment as much as a sailor is by his ship.

However far he has walked, whatever strange, unknown, and dangerous places he reaches, just as a sailor is always surrounded by the same decks, masts, and rigging of his ship, so the soldier always has around him the same comrades, the same ranks, the same sergeant major Ivan Mitrich, the same company dog Jack, and the same commanders.

Kutuzov, affecting the manners of an old soldier at the front, gave the command "Attention!" and rode up to the Emperors with a salute.

In his person, honor was shown to a simple fighting Russian soldier without connections and intrigues, and to one who was associated by memories of the Italian campaign with the name of Suvorov.

With the soldier, an infantry officer with a bandaged cheek came up to the bonfire, and addressing Tushin asked him to have the guns moved a trifle to let a wagon go past.