carabinier

1. 1.

   a soldier (historically a mounted soldier) who is armed with a carbine

   Synonymscarbineercarabineer

   Broaderrifleman

Other forms of carabinier

plural

carabiniers·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about carabinier

What does carabinier mean?

carabinier means "a soldier (historically a mounted soldier) who is armed with a carbine".

How many syllables are in carabinier?

carabinier has 4 syllables: ca-ra-bi-nier. The stress falls on "ra".

What is another word for carabinier?

Close synonyms include carbineer, carabineer. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is carabinier a common word?

carabinier is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.