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- sōl'jə(r), /ˈsəʊldʒə(r)/, /"s@UldZ@(r)/
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- Rhymes: -əʊldʒə(r)
- sŏl'jə(r), /ˈsɒldʒə(r)/, /"sQldZ@(r)/
- Rhymes: -ɒldʒə(r)
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soldier (plural soldiers)
- A member of an army, of any rank.
- A guardsman.
- A member of the Salvation Army.
- (UK) A piece of buttered bread (or toast), cut into a long thin strip and dipped into a soft-boiled egg.
- A term of affection for a young boy.
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member of an army
- Afrikaans: soldaat (af)
- Albanian: ushtar (sq)
- Arabic: جندي (ar) (jundii) m., عسكري (ar) (3askariy) m.
- Armenian: զինվոր (hy) (zinvor)
- Basque: soldadu (eu)
- Breton: soudard (br) m.
- Catalan: : soldat
- Chamicuro: soltalo
- Chinese: trad. and simpl. 兵 (pinyin: bīng), trad. and simpl. 士兵 (pinyin: shìbīng), trad. 軍人, simpl. 军人 (pinyin: jūnrén)
- Croatian: vojnik (hr) m., vojnikinja (hr) f., vojak (hr) m.
- Czech: voják (cs) m.
- Danish: soldat (da) c.
- Dutch: soldaat (nl) m.
- Esperanto: soldato (eo)
- Estonian: sõdur (et), sõjaväelane (et)
- Faroese: hermaður (fo) m.
- Finnish: sotilas (fi), solttu (fi)
- French: soldat (fr) m.
- Georgian: ჯარისკაცი (ka) (ǰarisvac’i)
- German: Soldat (de) m., Soldatin (de) f.
- Greek: στρατιώτης (el) m. (stratiótis)
- Haitian Creole: solda
- Hebrew: חיל (he) (khayal)
- Hindi: सैनिक (hi) (sainika)
- Hungarian: katona (hu)
- Indonesian: prajurit, tentara
- Italian: soldato (it) m.
- Japanese: 兵士 (ja) (hēshi), 軍人 (ja) (gunjin), 兵隊 (ja) (へいたい, heitai)
- Javanese: prajurit
- Korean: 군인 (ko) (gun-in)
- Kurdish: باڵباز (ku) (balbaz)
- Sorani: عهسکهر (ku) (`askar), چهکمهبۆر (ku) (chakmabor), سهرباز (ku) (sarbAz)
- Latin: mīles (la) m.
- Latvian: kareivis (lv) m.
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- Lithuanian: karys (lt) m.
- Lojban: sonci (jbo)
- Lower Sorbian: wójak m.
- Macedonian: војник (mk) (vójnik) m.
- Malay: askar (ms)
- Manx: sidoor (gv) m.
- Mongolian: цэрэг (mn) (cereg)
- Navajo: siláo, siláołtsooí
- Persian: سرباز (fa) (sarbâz)
- Polish: żołnierz (pl) m.
- Portuguese: soldado (pt) m.
- Romagnolo: suldèd m., suldèda f.
- Romanian: soldat (ro), ostaș (ro), militar (ro)
- Russian: солдат (ru) (soldát) m., воин (ru) (vóin) m., военнослужащий (ru) (vojennoslúžaščij) m., военный (ru) (vojénnyj) m., вояка (ru) (vojáka) m. coll., солдафон (ru) (soldafón) m. coll.
- Scottish Gaelic: saighdear (gd) m.
- Serbian: војник (sr) (vojnik) m., војникиња (sr) (vojnikinja) m., војнослужац (sr) (vojnoslužac) m.
- Sicilian: suldàtu (scn) m., surdàtu (scn) m.
- Skolt Sami: sääldat
- Slovak: voják (sk) m.
- Slovene: vojak (sl) m., vojákinja (sl) f.
- Spanish: soldado (es)
- Sundanese: pajurit (su)
- Swedish: soldat (sv)
- Taos: nòdu’úna
- Thai: ทหาร (th) (thahaan)
- Tibetan: དམག་མི (bo)
- Turkish: asker (tr)
- Vietnamese: người lính (vi)
- Volapük: (male or female) soldat (vo), (male) hisoldat (vo), (female) jisoldat (vo)
- Welsh: milwr (cy) m.
- West Frisian: soldaat (fy)
- Yiddish: סאָלדאַט (yi) (soldat) m., זעלנער (yi) (zelner) m.
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a member of the Salvation Army
UK: a piece of buttered bread or toast
a term of affection for a young boy
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soldier (third-person singular simple present soldiers, present participle soldiering, simple past and past participle soldiered)
- To continue.
- To be a soldier.
- To intentionally restrict labor productivity; to work at the slowest rate that goes unpunished. Has also been called dogging it or goldbricking. (Originally from the way that conscripts may approach following orders. Usage less prevalent in the era of all-volunteer militaries.)
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