color bearer

1. 1.

   the soldier who carries the standard of the unit in military parades or in battle

   Synonymsstandard-bearer

   Broadersoldier

   military

Questions about color bearer

What does color bearer mean?

color bearer means "the soldier who carries the standard of the unit in military parades or in battle".

What is another word for color bearer?

Close synonyms include standard-bearer. 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 color bearer a common word?

color bearer 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.