soldier
English
/ˈsəʊld͡ʒə/, /ˈsoʊld͡ʒɚ/
noun
Definitions
- A member of an army, of any rank.
- A private in military service, as distinguished from an officer.
- A guardsman.
- A member of the Salvation Army.
- (British) A piece of buttered bread (or toast), cut into a long thin strip for dipping into a soft-boiled egg.
- A term of affection for a young boy.
- Someone who fights or toils well.
- The or ().
- 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.
- (slang) A red herring cured kipper with flesh turned red.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English soudeour borrowed from Old French soudier derived from Latin soldarius, solidus (gold coin, solid, a gold coin, golden coin, various coins, a Roman gold coin).
Origin
Latin
solidus
Gloss
gold coin, solid, a gold coin, golden coin, various coins, a Roman gold coin
Concept
Semantic Field
Sense perception
Ontological Category
Property
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- fish English
- footsoldiery English
- presoldier English
- soldieress English
- soldierfish English
- soldierless English
- soldierlike English
- soldierliness English
- soldierly English
- soldiership English
- soldierwood English
- soldiery English
- solidus English
- supersoldier English
- unsoldierlike English
- unsoldierly English
- wood English
- soldarius Latin
- soldum Latin
- soldus Latin
- solidipes Latin
- solidus Latin
- Solidus German
- Söldner German
- saldo Italian
- sodo Italian
- soldo Italian
- solido Italian
- solde French
- solide French
- солидный Russian
- sueldo Spanish, Castilian
- sólido Spanish, Castilian
- *solh₂- Proto-Indo-European
- *sóh₂wl̥ Proto-Indo-European
- sólido Portuguese
- żołnierz Polish
- soudeour Middle English
- solde Old French
- solide Old French
- soudier Old French
- sòlid Catalan, Valencian
- sólido Galician
- solz Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- soldner Middle High German
- solid Occitan
- *soliðos Proto-Italic
- soldia Tok Pisin
- suald Dalmatian
- sualdi Dalmatian
- *solt Proto-Brythonic
- sordi Neapolitan
- swllt Middle Welsh