单词 | fellow soldier |
释义 | fellow soldiern. A person who fights under the same standard or labours for the same cause as another specified person; a companion-in-arms, a comrade. In early use frequently with reference to the activities of the Christian Church in apostolic times.Now perhaps less often apprehended as a fixed collocation. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > [noun] > fellow-soldier gadlingOE sword-brotherc1275 companionc1325 companion-in-arms1525 fellow soldier1526 commilitant1577 camarada1598 fore-fellows1598 commilitoa1614 brother in arms1632 comrade-in-arms1848 1526 Bible (Tyndale) Philipp. ii. f. cclxjv Epaphroditus.., my companion in laboure and feowelsodier [read felowesodier; Gk. συστρατιώτην]. 1559 W. Bavand tr. J. Ferrarius Common Weale v. vii. f. 99 They can with a number of their felow souldiours [L. commilitonum] hide them selues in woodes, brakes, and bie places. a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 3 (1623) iv. viii. 70 Come, fellow Souldior, make thou proclamation. View more context for this quotation 1660 G. Mackenzie Aretina iii. 315 Fellow Souldiers, your bleeding wounds and wounded bodies, deserve better requital from this Senate than frowns or threats. 1723 W. Cheselden Treat. High Operation for Stone 97 A Trooper..was wounded by his fellow soldier with a bullet. 1777 W. Robertson Hist. Amer. II. v. 24 To avoid the imputation of cowardice from their fellow-soldiers. 1826 S. Woodworth King's Bridge Cottage i. i. 6 With the same calm countenance he received the submission of his overpowered enemy, and congratulated his fellow soldiers upon their victory. 1882 J. Taylor Sc. Covenanters 161 He met with his former fellow-soldier. 1927 S. Lewis Elmer Gantry xxviii. 376 Suppose a lot of your fellow soldiers, even the present commander of the regiment himself, were rotters—cowards. 2015 Daily Express 21 May 13/4 Major Gus Jennings..died smothering a German stick bomb at Esquelbecq trying to save his fellow soldiers. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1526 |
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