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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Soldier \Sol"dier\, noun [OE. souldier, soudiour, souder, OF. soldier, soldoier, soldeier, sodoier, soudoier, soudier, fr. L. solidus a piece of money (hence applied to the pay of a soldier), fr. solidus solid. See {Solid}, and cf. {Sold}, noun]
1. 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.
I am a soldier and unapt to weep. --Shak.
2. Especially, a private in military service, as distinguished from an officer.
It were meet that any one, before he came to be a captain, should have been a soldier. --Spenser.
3. A brave warrior; a man of military experience and skill, or a man of distinguished valor; -- used by way of emphasis or distinction. --Shak.
4. (Zool.) The red or cuckoo gurnard ({Trigla pini}.) [Prov. Eng.]
5. (Zool.) 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 beetle} (Zool.), an American carabid beetle ({Chauliognathus Americanus}) whose larva feeds upon other insects, such as the plum curculio.
{Soldier bug} (Zool.), any hemipterous insect of the genus {Podisus} and allied genera, as the spined soldier bug ({Podius spinosus}). These bugs suck the blood of other insects.
{Soldier crab} (Zool.) (a) The hermit crab. (b) The fiddler crab.
{Soldier fish} (Zool.), a bright-colored etheostomoid fish ({Etheostoma coeruleum}) found in the Mississippi River; -- called also {blue darter}, and {rainbow darter}.
{Soldier fly} (Zool.), any one of numerous species of small dipterous flies of the genus {Stratyomys} and allied genera. They are often bright green, with a metallic luster, and are ornamented on the sides of the back with markings of yellow, like epaulets or shoulder straps.
{Soldier moth} (Zool.), a large geometrid moth ({Euschema militaris}), having the wings bright yellow with bluish black lines and spots.
{Soldier orchis} (Bot.), a kind of orchis ({Orchis militaris}).
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Soldier \Sol"dier\, verb (used without an object)
2. To make a pretense of doing something, or of performing any task. [Colloq.U.S.]
Note: In this sense the vulgar pronounciation (s[=o]"j[~e]r) is jocosely preserved.
It needs an opera glass to discover whether the leaders are pulling, or only soldiering. --C. D. Warner.
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
noun
1: an enlisted man or woman who serves in an army; "the soldiers stood at attention"
2: a wingless sterile ant or termite having a large head and powerful jaws adapted for defending the colony
verb
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