foot soldier

Questions about foot soldier

What does foot soldier mean?

foot soldier means "fights on foot with small arms". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for foot soldier?

Close synonyms include infantryman, marcher, footslogger, subordinate, subsidiary. 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 foot soldier a common word?

foot soldier is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.