federal soldier

1. 1.

   a member of the Union Army during the American Civil War

   SynonymsFederalUnion soldier

   BroaderYankee

Questions about federal soldier

What does federal soldier mean?

federal soldier means "a member of the Union Army during the American Civil War".

What is another word for federal soldier?

Close synonyms include Federal, Union soldier. 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 federal soldier a common word?

federal 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.