soldiery

Other forms of soldiery

plural

soldieries·

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 soldiery

What does soldiery mean?

soldiery means "soldiers collectively".

How many syllables are in soldiery?

soldiery has 3 syllables: sol-die-ry. The stress falls on "sol".

What is another word for soldiery?

Close synonyms include military personnel, troops. 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 soldiery a common word?

soldiery 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.