Definition of "soldier" []

• One who serves in an army. (noun)
• An enlisted person or a noncommissioned officer. (noun)
• An active, loyal, or militant follower of an organization. (noun)
• A sexually undeveloped form of certain ants and termites, having large heads and powerful jaws. (noun)
• One of a group of honeybees that swarm in defense of a hive. (noun)

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• "Note that _sepoy_, as colloquially it is called, but _sipahee_, as in books it is often written, does not mean Hindoo or Hindoo soldier, but is simply the Hindoo word for _soldier_.] [Footnote 61: '_The laurelled majesty_,' &c."
• "DOBBS: I'm not going to speak for the general, but I got to believe he's shuttering as you use the term soldier -- because these are not soldiers, these are terrorists."
• "It was so with all the Boers; none understood the term soldier as applying to anybody except their enemy, while many considered it an insult to be called a soldier, as it implied, to a certain extent, that they were fighting for hire."