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say it: SOHL-jur
soldier is a noun and verb meaning "an enlisted man or woman who serves in an army". It is pronounced /ˈsoʊldʒɚ/ — SOHL-jur. It carries 3 recorded senses.
an enlisted man or woman who serves in an army
“the soldiers stood at attention”
a wingless sterile ant or termite having a large head and powerful jaws adapted for defending the colony
serve as a soldier in the military
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for soldier come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.