SOLDIER


Meaning of SOLDIER in English

I. noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

combat troops/soldiers/forces/units

US combat troops were in the streets of the capital yesterday.

private soldier

rebel forces/soldiers

soldier of fortune

toy car/soldier/gun etc

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

old

He was now thirty-one years old and a soldier and politician of great experience.

On the way to the church, she ran into an old soldier with a strange long red beard.

He was also the caricature of a crusty old soldier .

But the old soldier had the last laugh.

The older soldier presses a chocolate bar into my hand, then pushes me towards the crowd of waiting women.

Old battles, and old soldiers fighting them over again.

Roddy McDowall makes an appearance as a mad old soldier and lifts the film out of its doldrums.

regular

If, that is, they were regular Roman soldiers .

He ran a youth club with a man called Jefferson, who had been a regular soldier .

Graham responded by collecting an army of his own, including a detachment of regular soldiers from the garrison at Carlisle.

young

Many young soldiers desert or go Awol after mistreatment and bullying by their superiors or colleagues.

A young soldier prodded her when she tried to sit down, but otherwise ignored her.

A young soldier said that he had a warrant to search the house.

Harry Belafonte was Joe, an innocent young soldier .

Three young soldiers were killed instantly when an explosion inside the reactor forced it literally through the roof of its housing.

Along came a young soldier , recently discharged from the army because his wounds made him unable to serve.

That young soldier , who was your friend - why did he kill himself?

They also walk past the car the three young soldiers were sitting on, drinking Naranja.

■ NOUN

foot

Barbarossa's foot soldiers were often still attired like this eleventh-century warrior.

Could politics function effectively if there were no foot soldiers ? 3.

These were organized into four divisions of foot soldiers and about 500 light cavalry.

In such cases, the environment provides foot soldiers with confusing signals regarding the acceptable level and forms of political activism.

Not that the foot soldiers of the movement were completely excluded.

Hers was the record of, at best, a foot soldier in the feminist and abolitionist struggles of her day.

The cavalry technique would have been the single mass charge carrying maximum force, with following attacks from foot soldiers .

Among the foot soldiers , oft-concealed feelings about service are also bubbling to the surface.

rebel

The men and women I had known as rebel soldiers in the mountains now wore suits.

Three of the rebel soldiers and one government soldier were killed.

The rebel soldiers were imprisoned and taken to Lisbon.

The mutiny ended the following day when government forces regained control of the camp and arrested 45 of the rebel soldiers .

■ VERB

kill

A total of 210 people were killed outright by the soldiers , another seventy-one died later and 173 were less seriously wounded.

Two suicide squads from the Lashkar-e-Toiba group attacked army posts, killing five soldiers and injuring 13.

Lumumba was deposed in August 1960 and killed by soldiers six months later.

play

You, Rambo, come and play soldiers with me down on Jollity Farm.

Their eyes on the playing woman, the soldiers release her sister.

Firecracker wanted to play soldiers instead.

Sometimes he played soldiers with them and they thought little of his plans for defence in depth.

They are always pretending to be grown-ups playing soldiers , playing shop.

Time you were away playing toy soldiers , who do you think looked after this house and the estate?

send

In an ideal world, similarly, strong countries would help war-torn ones by sending in their soldiers .

The governor sent forty soldiers to fire on what he called the horribly and detestably blasphemous Gortonians.

The image of the governor sending soldiers to block a courthouse door, they say, evokes images of segregationist Gov.

shoot

Soldier shot by sniper A soldier has died after being shot by a sniper whilst on duty in Northern Ireland.

In August 1990 two Buddhist monks were shot dead by soldiers at an anti-government demonstration in Mandalay.

Hooded men on June 1 shot dead a young soldier , Pte.

wounded

By March 1863, military hospitals in Germantown and nearby communities held almost two thousand wounded soldiers .

I passed long wagon trains filled with wounded and dying soldiers , without even a blanket to shield them....

We gave performances in neighborhood theaters and schools, and before wounded soldiers in hospitals.

Then, giving my horse in charge of a wounded soldier , I turned back over the field of mutilation and death.

In 1942, Walter Reed officials needed more beds for wounded soldiers and purchased the school for $ 800, 000.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

career soldier/teacher etc

A career soldier, he had died leading his men into battle at Spion Kop during the Boer War.

A Kurator is similar to a specialist careers teacher with additional contributions to make after school.

For career soldiers like Jack it was a depressing time.

They liaise with secondary school careers teachers, and also with the employers in an area.

foot soldier/patrol

Barbarossa's foot soldiers were often still attired like this eleventh-century warrior.

Dreben says that he never talks about his experiences as a foot soldier, but they were certainly horrific.

Each foot soldier also carried a bow, twelve arrows and a spare bowstring as standard equipment.

Hayworth is one of the many first-term Republican foot soldiers who proudly fall into lockstep behind Rep.

In such cases, the environment provides foot soldiers with confusing signals regarding the acceptable level and forms of political activism.

It is important to emphasize any explanation of the foot soldiers is highly contingent upon the environment in which they are operating.

The columns included foot soldiers, artillery and cavalry units, white-topped sup-ply wagons, and dark-hued ambulances.

These were organized into four divisions of foot soldiers and about 500 light cavalry.

regular army/troops/soldier

Equally ambivalent were local attitudes to the wholesale billeting in Sussex of regular troops and other county militias during invasion scares.

It is possible that some of Mezrag's forces continue to provide the regular army with back-up troops.

The regular army had become increasingly discontented with its role in the war over the last ten years.

The regular army has not advanced from the edge of the zone.

The regular troops successfully ended the Great Strike within a few days.

The other women in the classroom, except for two in the uniforms of the regular army, wear dresses.

The ragged guerrillas become a new regular army with housing and pensions.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Moore has been a soldier for most of his adult life.

There were several soldiers guarding the main gate.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

A group of young soldiers were standing outside talking excitedly, their bulging kit-bags leaning up against their legs.

Contemporary accounts give the impression of a watchful, mistrustful regime, of a country bristling with fortresses and teeming with soldiers.

Foreshadowing yet another Communist practice, he formed colonies of soldiers to farm virgin areas.

Grinning soldiers crowded around the partition.

This orphan grew up to be a soldier .

We can form a human chain of Berliners along the Wall which no one dare break, nomatterhow many soldiers they send.

Women were raped by their countrymen as well as by United Nations soldiers who were supposed to protect them.

II. verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADVERB

on

Those you run into may not, but you soldier on .

The Atlanta Braves soldiered on , sending four baseballs over the fence at Candlestick Park.

Life is very crude, and bonnie Princes Street a dream, but we soldier on with a good grace.

Irony abounds: In late winter 1992, Hillary Clinton soldiered on through public mortification toward the greater goal of the presidency.

The city of Glasgow soldiered on .

But he had soldiered on and eaten the entire loaf over a period of several days.

He soldiered on at his job.

While he soldiered on , wife Norma was unable to stand the pace.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

After losing centre-forward Lloyd Davies with a knee injury, the Cobblers soldiered on with ten men to earn a goalless draw.

But the eighty year old has soldiered on.

Do you realise, that I've been soldiering longer than anything else since I was a schoolboy?

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