Definition of "military man" [military man]

• Someone who serves in the armed forces; a member of a military force (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "In other words, the U.S. paid for the aircraft and the crew, and the military airlift people controlled the booking, but the same military people would not fill an empty seat with a military man from Thailand who had a few days off unless he was on official ( "funded") business."
• "I couldn't be sitting in an American hotel, listening to a well set up military man in an Inquisitor's hood, calling himself after one of the Fates, and apologising for coarse language to an aristocrat-turned-whore who used to be my mistress …"
• "There was the comte de Caylus, a former military man turned author, draftsman, and connoisseur, who rejoiced in the full name Anne-Claude-Philippe de Tubières-Grimoard de Pestels de Levis, Comte de Caylus."