mercenary

1. 1.

   a person hired to fight for another country than their own

   Synonymssoldier of fortune

   Broaderadventurer

   Narrowerninja

Other forms of mercenary

plural

mercenaries·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about mercenary

What does mercenary mean?

mercenary means "marked by materialism". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in mercenary?

mercenary has 4 syllables: mer-ce-nar-y. The stress falls on "mer". In IPA it is /ˈmɝsəˌnɛɹi/.

What is another word for mercenary?

Close synonyms include materialistic, worldly-minded, free-lance, freelance, mercantile. 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 mercenary a common word?

mercenary is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with mercenary?

41 words rhyme with mercenary. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.