soldier

Etymology
From, from or , from , from , a type of coin. Displaced (whence obsolete ).

An allusion to soldiers' red uniforms; is, reciprocally, a slang term for "soldier".

Noun

 * 1) A member of a ground-based army, of any rank, but especially an enlisted member.
 * 2)  Any member of a military, regardless of specialty.
 * 3) An enlisted member of a military service, as distinguished from a commissioned officer.
 * 4) A guardsman.
 * 5) A member of the Salvation Army.
 * 6) A low-ranking gangster or member of a gang, especially the mafia, who engages in physical conflict.
 * 7)  A piece of buttered bread (or toast), cut into a long thin strip for dipping into a soft-boiled egg.
 * 8) Someone who fights or toils well.
 * 9) * 2004, Eminem, "Like Toy Soldiers", Encore, Shady Records
 * [L]et 'em know how important it is to have Runyon Avenue soldiers up in our corners; their loyalty to us is worth more than any award is.
 * 1) The  or.
 * 2) One of the asexual polymorphic forms of termites, in which the head and jaws are very large and strong. The soldiers serve to defend the nest.
 * 3)  A red herring cured kipper with flesh turned red.
 * 4)  A xiangqi piece that moves and captures by advancing one point. Once it has crossed the river, it may also move and capture one point horizontally.
 * 5) A brick, for example in a course of brickwork, that is laid vertically on its shortest end (smallest face), so that its tallest and slimmest face faces the outside of the wall.
 * 1) * 2004, Eminem, "Like Toy Soldiers", Encore, Shady Records
 * [L]et 'em know how important it is to have Runyon Avenue soldiers up in our corners; their loyalty to us is worth more than any award is.
 * 1) The  or.
 * 2) One of the asexual polymorphic forms of termites, in which the head and jaws are very large and strong. The soldiers serve to defend the nest.
 * 3)  A red herring cured kipper with flesh turned red.
 * 4)  A xiangqi piece that moves and captures by advancing one point. Once it has crossed the river, it may also move and capture one point horizontally.
 * 5) A brick, for example in a course of brickwork, that is laid vertically on its shortest end (smallest face), so that its tallest and slimmest face faces the outside of the wall.

Translations

 * Abkhaz: аруаҩ
 * Adyghe: сэлат, солдат
 * Afrikaans:
 * Aghwan: 𐕆𐔽𐔼𐔱𐕞𐕡𐕎𐔷𐔼
 * Albanian:
 * Amharic:
 * Apache:
 * Western Apache: silaada
 * Arabic:, عَسْكَرِيّ
 * Egyptian Arabic: ⁩جندي, عسكري
 * Juba Arabic: askeeri
 * North Levantine Arabic: عسكري
 * Moroccan Arabic: عسكري
 * South Levantine Arabic: ⁩جندي, عسكري
 * Aragonese: soldau
 * Armenian:
 * Assamese: সৈনিক
 * Asturian: soldáu
 * Azerbaijani:, çəri
 * Baluchi: سپائی, سپاہی
 * Bashkir: һалдат
 * Basque: soldadu
 * Belarusian: салда́т, во́ін, жаўне́р, жаўнёр, вае́нны
 * Bengali:, , ,
 * Breton:
 * Brunei Malay: asgar
 * Bulgarian:, , ,
 * Burmese: စစ်သား,
 * Catalan: ,
 * Cebuano: sundalo
 * Chakma:
 * Chamicuro: soltalo
 * Chavacano: soldao
 * Chechen: сурхо
 * Cherokee: ᎠᏯᏫᏍᎩ
 * Chichewa: msilikali
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 士兵, 兵, 軍人, 戰士
 * Hokkien:
 * Mandarin:, , ,
 * Chukchi: маравӄԓявыԓ
 * Cornish: souder
 * Corsican: suldatu, sullatu
 * Crimean Gothic: cadariou
 * Crimean Tatar: asker
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Egyptian:
 * Emilian:
 * Erzya: ушман
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:, sõjaväelane
 * Extremaduran:
 * Faroese: hermaður
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Friulian: soldât
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: ჯარისკაცი
 * German: ,
 * Gothic: 𐌲𐌰𐌳𐍂𐌰𐌿𐌷𐍄𐍃
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: στρατιώτης, στρατιῶτις
 * Greenlandic: sakkutooq
 * Gujarati: સૈનિક
 * Haitian Creole: solda
 * Hebrew:
 * Higaonon: sundalo
 * Hiligaynon: soldado
 * Hindi:, , फ़ौजी, सोल्जर
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:, , , ,
 * Ingrian: sotamees
 * Irish:
 * Istriot: soldà
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, ,
 * Javanese:
 * Kannada:
 * Kashubian: żôłniérz
 * Kazakh: әскер, жауынгер, сарбаз, солдат, ұлан
 * Khmer:
 * Kikuyu: mũthigari
 * Korean: ,
 * Kumyk: асгер
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: باڵباز, عەسکەر, چەکمەبۆر,
 * Northern Kurdish: ,
 * Kyrgyz:, , , ,
 * Ladin: saudé
 * Lao:
 * Latin:, bellator
 * Latvian: kareivis, karavīrs
 * Ligurian: sordàtto
 * Lithuanian: karys
 * Livonian: suodāmīez
 * Lombard:, suldàa
 * Low German:
 * German Low German: Soldat, Suldot, Soldatin, Suldotin, Soldaatsch, Soldaatsche, Suldootsch, Suldootsche
 * Lü: ᦶᦜᧃᧈ, ᦒᦱᦠᦱᧃ
 * Luxembourgish: Zaldot
 * Macedonian: војник, аскер
 * Malagasy:
 * Malay:, , perajurit, hulubalang
 * Malayalam:
 * Maltese: suldat
 * Manchu: ᠴᠣᠣᡥᠠ
 * Manx: sidoor
 * Marathi:
 * Middle English: kempe, soudeour
 * Mirandese: suldado
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Mongolian: ᠴᠡᠷᠢᠭ
 * Moroccan Amazigh: ⴰⵄⵚⴽⵕⵉ
 * Navajo: siláo, siláołtsooí, łééchąąʼí yił nínii
 * Neapolitan: surdato
 * Nepali:
 * Northern Sami: soalddát
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: soldat
 * Occitan:
 * Odia: ସୈନିକ
 * Ojibwe: zhimaaganish
 * Old Church Slavonic: воиникъ
 * Old English: cempa
 * Ottoman Turkish: چری, عسكر
 * Pashto:, سپاهي, , زمېريالي, , پلټني
 * Persian:
 * Dari:
 * Iranian Persian:, , , ,
 * Piedmontese: soldà
 * Plautdietsch: Soldot, Armeejung
 * Polish:, , woj , ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Punjabi:
 * Quechua: awqapuri
 * Rohingya:
 * Romagnol: suldèd, suldèda
 * Romanian:, ,
 * Romansch: schuldà, schuldau , suldo , schuldo , sudo , sudà
 * Russian:, , , , ,  ,  ,  ,
 * Sanskrit:
 * Scottish Gaelic: saighdear
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: во̀јнӣк, војнѝкиња, војнослужац, во̀ја̄к, а̏скер
 * Roman:, , vojnoslužac, ,
 * Sicilian: suldàtu, surdàtu
 * Sinhalese: සොල්දාදුවා
 * Skolt Sami: sääldat
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:, vojákinja
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: wójak, wójacka
 * Upper Sorbian: wojak, wojakowka
 * Southern Altai: черӱчи
 * Spanish:
 * Sranan Tongo: srudati
 * Sundanese: pajurit
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tabasaran: эскер
 * Tagalog: sundalo, kawal
 * Tajik: сарбоз, аскар, солдат, сипоҳи
 * Talysh: əskər
 * Tamil:
 * Taos: nòduʼúna
 * Tat: əsgər
 * Tatar:, солдат
 * Telugu: ,
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan: དམག་མི
 * Tigrinya: ወተሃደር
 * Turkish:, ,
 * Turkmen: esger, soldat, esğer
 * Ugaritic: 𐎎𐎅𐎗
 * Ukrainian:, во́їн, , воя́к,
 * Urdu: سِپاہی, فَوجی, عَسْکَرِی, لَشْکَری, سِپاہی, سَینِک, سولْجَر
 * Uyghur: ,
 * Uzbek:, ,
 * Venetian:
 * Vietnamese: người lính,, , , , , , , ,
 * Volapük:,  hisoldat,  jisoldat
 * Votic: sõtameez
 * Walloon:, ,
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian: soldaat
 * Yiddish: סאָלדאַט, זעלנער
 * Zazaki:, lezker
 * Zhuang: bing


 * Greek:, ,
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean: ,
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: freiceadan


 * Dutch:, heilsoldate
 * Finnish: pelastussotilas
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:


 * Dutch:
 * French:
 * Hungarian:


 * Scottish Gaelic: laochan
 * Spanish: campión


 * Finnish:
 * German:


 * Finnish:


 * Spanish:,  ,
 * Swedish: ,

Verb

 * 1)  To continue steadfast; to keep striving.
 * 2)  To serve as a soldier.
 * 3)  To intentionally restrict labor productivity; to work at the slowest rate that goes unpunished.
 * 4)  To take a ride on (another person's horse) without permission.

Usage notes
Originally from the way that conscripts may approach following orders. Usage less prevalent in the era of all-volunteer militaries.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Esperanto: soldati
 * Hungarian:
 * Japanese: 従軍する
 * Latin: mīlitāre
 * Russian:
 * Spanish: