Word Meanings - SOLDIER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The red or cuckoo gurnard (more info) soldoier, soldeier, sodoier, soudoier, soudier, fr. L. solidus a piece of money , fr. solidus 1. One who is engaged in military service as an officer or a private; one who serves in an army; one

Additional info about word: SOLDIER

The red or cuckoo gurnard (more info) soldoier, soldeier, sodoier, soudoier, soudier, fr. L. solidus a piece of money , fr. solidus 1. One who is engaged in military service as an officer or a private; one who serves in an army; one of an organized body of combatants. I am a soldier and unapt to weep. Shak. 2. Especially, a private in military service, as distinguished from an officer. It were meet that any one, before he came to be a captain, should have been a soldier. Spenser. 3. A brave warrior; a man of military experience and skill, or a man of distinguished valor; -- used by way of emphasis or distinction. Shak.

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• MONEYER
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• PIECER
  1. One who pieces; a patcher. 2. A child employed in spinning mill to tie together broken threads.
• GURNARD; GURNET
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• MONEYAGE
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• PIECEMEALED
  Divided into pieces.
• PRIVATEERSMAN
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• SERVICE
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• PIECEMEAL
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• MONEY
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• CUCKOO
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• ENGAGING
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• ENGAGEDNESS
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• PIECELESS
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• SERVICEABLE
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• SERVICE; SERVICE
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• MONEYED
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• OFFICER
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