green beret

1. 1.

   a soldier who is a member of the United States Army Special Forces

   Broadersoldier

   Part ofSpecial Forces

Questions about green beret

What does green beret mean?

green beret means "a soldier who is a member of the United States Army Special Forces".

Is green beret a common word?

green beret 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.