common soldier

1. 1.

   an enlisted man of the lowest rank in the Army or Marines

   “our prisoner was just a private and knew nothing of value”

   Synonymsprivatebuck private

   Broaderenlisted man

Questions about common soldier

What does common soldier mean?

common soldier means "an enlisted man of the lowest rank in the Army or Marines".

What is another word for common soldier?

Close synonyms include private, buck private. 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 common soldier a common word?

common soldier 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.