Thesaurus:soldier
English
Noun
Sense: member of an army, of any rank
Synonyms
- digger (Australia)
- dogface (US)
- doughboy (US)
- GI (US)
- ground pounder
- jarhead (US)
- jawan (India)
- lobster
- old sweat (UK)
- regular
- serviceman
- serviceperson
- servicewoman
- soldier
- squaddie (UK)
- sweat (UK)
- tirailleur (France)
- Tommy (UK)
- Tommy Atkins (UK)
- trooper
- warrior
Hyponyms
- archer
- artilleryman
- askari
- bluecoat (US)
- bombardier
- bowman
- brigadier
- buffalo soldier (US)
- cadet
- campaigner
- cannoneer
- captain
- carabineer
- cavalryman
- centurion (ancient Rome)
- cipaye
- colonel
- cuirassier
- dog soldier
- dragoon
- enlisted man
- foot soldier
- fusilier
- gallowglass
- general
- grenadier
- grognard
- grunt (US)
- guard
- guardsman
- guerrilla
- gunner
- hajduk (Hungary)
- halberdier
- hoplite
- horse soldier
- hussar
- infanteer (UK)
- infantryman
- jaeger
- janissary
- knight
- lancer
- legionary
- legionnaire
- lieutenant
- major
- mameluke
- man-at-arms
- marine
- marshal
- mercenary [⇒ thesaurus]
- musketeer
- myrmidon
- officer
- orderly [⇒ thesaurus]
- pikeman
- private
- recruit
- redcoat
- rifleman
- sapper
- sentry
- sepoy
- spahi (Ottoman Empire, France)
- spearman
- subaltern
- swordsman
- tiro
- topaz (UK)
- uhlan (Eastern Europe)
- veteran
- weekend warrior (US)
- yeoman
- Zouave
Hypernyms
Holonyms
See also
- battle buddy
- brother-in-arms
- comrade in arms
- Category:Military ranks
Further reading
- “726. combatant” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “soldier” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.