Crossword-Solution: SOLDIER
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Soldier | n. | 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. |
| Soldier | n. | Especially, a private in military service, as distinguished from an officer. |
| Soldier | n. | A brave warrior; a man of military experience and skill, or a man of distinguished valor; -- used by way of emphasis or distinction. |
| Soldier | n. | The red or cuckoo gurnard (Trigla pini.) |
| Soldier | n. | 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. |
| Soldier | v. i. | To serve as a soldier. |
| Soldier | v. i. | To make a pretense of doing something, or of performing any task. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SOLDIER | anagram | REDSOIL, SOLIDER |
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Sentences with SOLDIER (5)
The Monkey approached carelessly and was caught in the trap; and on his accusing the Fox of purposely leading him into the snare, she replied, “O Monkey, and are you, with such a mind as yours, going to be King over the Beasts?” The Horse and His Rider A HORSE SOLDIER took the utmost pains with his charger.
She wore a man’s long ulster (not as if it were an affliction, but as if it were very comfortable and belonged to her; carried it like a young soldier), and a round plush cap, tied down with a thick veil.
What woman in Bathsheba’s position, not naturally timid, and within call of her retainers, would have bought escape from a dashing soldier at so dear a price? “All in good time; it will soon be done, I perceive,” said her cool friend.
The brave soldier had already numbered, nearly or quite, his three-score years and ten, and was pursuing the remainder of his earthly march, burdened with infirmities which even the martial music of his own spirit-stirring recollections could do little towards lightening.
The ordinary sapper is a great deal better educated than the common soldier, and they discussed the peculiar conditions of the possible fight with some acuteness.
Quotes with SOLDIER (3)
In his suicide note, Kurt Cobain wrote, "It's better to burn out than to fade away." He was quoting a Neil Young song about Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols. When I was twenty-four, I interviewed John Lennon. I asked him about this sentiment, one that pervades rock and roll. He took strong, outraged exception to it. "It's better to fade away like an old soldier than to burn out, "he said. "I worship people who survive. I'll take the living and the healthy.
When I came in and you were sleeping, I thought: There’s my soldier, exhausted from her wars.” He lifted her hand, kissed her fingers. “Now, I look, and I think: There’s my woman, soft and lovely.” Her lips curved as he undressed her. “Where do you get this stuff?” “It just comes to me. I’ve only to look at you, and the world comes to me. You’re my life.
Reader, do you think it is a terrible thing to hope when there is really no reason to hope at all? Or is it (as the soldier said about happiness) something that you might just as well do, since, in the end, it really makes no difference to anyone but you?
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 33 times in crossword archives (1945–2025).