union soldier

1. 1.

   a member of the Union Army during the American Civil War

   SynonymsFederalFederal soldier

   BroaderYankee

Questions about union soldier

What does union soldier mean?

union soldier means "a member of the Union Army during the American Civil War".

What is another word for union soldier?

Close synonyms include Federal, Federal soldier. 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 union soldier a common word?

union soldier 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.