单词 | soldier |
释义 | Word Frequency soldier(ˈsəʊldʒə) noun 1. a. a person who serves or has served in an army b. Also called: common soldier a noncommissioned member of an army as opposed to a commissioned officer 2. a person who works diligently for a cause 3. a low-ranking member of the Mafia or other organized crime ring 4. zoology a. an individual in a colony of social insects, esp ants, that has powerful jaws adapted for defending the colony, crushing large food particles, etc b. (as modifier) soldier ant 5. informal a strip of bread or toast that is dipped into a soft-boiled egg verb (intransitive) 6. to serve as a soldier 7. obsolete, slang to malinger or shirk Word origin C13: from Old French soudier, from soude (army) pay, from Late Latin solidus a gold coin, from Latin: firm |
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