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soldier

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soldier
/sohl"jeuhr/, n.
1. a person who serves in an army; a person engaged in military service.
2. an enlisted man or woman, as distinguished from a commissioned officer: the soldiers' mess and the officers' mess.
3. a person of military skill or experience: George Washington was a great soldier.
4. a person who contends or serves in any cause: a soldier of the Lord.
5. Also called button man. Slang. a low-ranking member of a crime organization or syndicate.
6. Entomol. a member of a caste of sexually underdeveloped female ants or termites specialized, as with powerful jaws, to defend the colony from invaders.
7. a brick laid vertically with the narrower long face out. Cf. rowlock (def. 2).
8. Informal. a person who avoids work or pretends to work; loafer; malingerer.
v.i.
9. to act or serve as a soldier.
10. Informal. to loaf while pretending to work; malinger: He was soldiering on the job.
11. soldier on, to persist steadfastly in one's work; persevere: to soldier on until the work is done.
[1250-1300; ME souldiour < OF soudier, so(l)dier, equiv. to soulde pay ( < L solidus; see SOL2) + -ier -IER2]

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Фильмы

  • Near the Soldier., 1975 — A film tells about cameramen's and reporters's work during the Great Patriotic War [Soviet People's participation in World War II 1941-1945].
  • The Soldier Was WalKing., 1975 — This film poem tells about the immortal heroic deed of a Soviet Soldier during the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945).
  • Soldiers of Resistance., 1980 — About the struggle of fighters of the international resistance movement during the Second World War (1939-1945) by the example of Fyodor Polezhayev, Vasiliy Porik, Yevgeniy Dotsenko and others.