reservist

English

Etymology

reserve +‎ -ist

Noun

reservist (plural reservists)

1. A soldier who is assigned as reserved; after training, no longer in full active duty.
   • 1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 124:

     One of the men there, a reservist he said he was, told my brother he had seen the heliograph flickering in the west.

Synonyms

• weekend warrior

Related terms

• reservism

Translations

a soldier who is assigned as reserved; after training, no longer in full active duty

• Albanian: rezervist (sq) m, rezerviste f
• Armenian: ռեզերվիստ (hy) (ṙezervist), պահեստային (hy) (pahestayin)
• Belarusian: рэзерві́ст m (rezjervíst), рэзерві́стка f (rezjervístka)
• Bulgarian: запасня́к m (zapasnják), запасня́чка f (zapasnjáčka), резерви́ст m (rezervíst), резерви́стка f (rezervístka)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 預備役／预备役 (zh) (yùbèiyì), 預備隊／预备队 (zh) (yùbèiduì)

• Czech: záložník (cs) m, záložnice f
• Danish: reservist c
• Dutch: reservist (nl) m
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Estonian: reservväelane
• Finnish: reserviläinen
• French: réserviste (fr) m or f
• Georgian: რეზერვისტი (rezervisṭi)
• German: Reservist (de) m, Reservistin f
• Greek: έφεδρος (el) m (éfedros), έφεδρη (el) f (éfedri)
• Hungarian: tartalékos (hu)
• Italian: riservista (it) m or f
• Japanese: 予備兵 (よびへい, yobihei)
• Korean: 예비병(豫備兵) (ko) (yebibyeong), 후비병(後備兵) (hubibyeong)
• Latvian: rezervists m, rezerviste f
• Lithuanian: rezervistas m, rezervistė f
• Macedonian: резерви́ст m (rezervíst), резерви́стка f (rezervístka), ре́диф m (rédif) (archaic), ре́дифка f (rédifka) (archaic)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: reservist m

• Polish: rezerwista m, rezerwistka f
• Portuguese: reservista m or f
• Romanian: rezervist (ro) m, rezervistă f
• Russian: резерви́ст (ru) m (rezervíst), резерви́стка f (rezervístka), запа́сник (ru) m (zapásnik), военнообя́занный запа́са m (vojennoobjázannyj zapása), военнообя́занный в запа́се m (vojennoobjázannyj v zapáse)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: резѐрвист m, резѐрвистица (sh) f

  Roman: rezèrvist (sh) m, rezèrvistica (sh) f

• Slovak: záložník m, záložníčka f
• Slovene: rezervist m, rezervistka f
• Spanish: reservista m or f
• Swedish: reservare c, reservist (sv) c
• Turkish: please add this translation if you can
• Ukrainian: резерві́ст m (rezervíst), резерві́стка f (rezervístka), запасни́к m (zapasnýk)
• Uzbek: rezervist (uz)
• Vietnamese: lính trừ bị

Anagrams

• restrives, reverists

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French réserviste. Equivalent to reserve +‎ -ist.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌreː.zɛrˈvɪst/, /ˌreː.zərˈvɪst/

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: re‧ser‧vist
• Rhymes: -ɪst

Noun

reservist m (plural reservisten)

1. (military) reservist