Noun

(en noun)

A member of an army, of any rank.

*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

*:I am a soldier and unapt to weep.

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*:Captain Edward Carlisle, soldier as he was, martinet as he was, felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze, her alluring smile?; he could not tell what this prisoner might do.

*2012 , August 1. Owen Gibson in Guardian Unlimited, London 2012: rowers Glover and Stanning win Team GB's first gold medal

*:Stanning, who was commissioned from Sandhurst in 2008 and has served in Aghanistan, is not the first solider to bail out the organisers at these Games but will be among the most celebrated.

A private in military service, as distinguished from an officer.

*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)

*:It were meet that any one, before he came to be a captain, should have been a soldier .

A guardsman.

A member of the Salvation Army.

A piece of buttered bread (or toast), cut into a long thin strip and dipped into a soft-boiled egg.

A term of affection for a young boy.

Someone who fights or toils well.

The red or cuckoo gurnard (Trigla pini ).

One of the asexual polymorphic forms of white ants, or termites, in which the head and jaws are very large and strong. The soldiers serve to defend the nest.

Noun

(en noun)

A person who, or thing that, protects or watches over something.

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(military) A squad responsible for protecting something.

A part of a machine which blocks access to dangerous parts.

(Australia) A panel of a car that encloses the wheel area, especially the front wheels.

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(basketball) A relatively short player, playing farther from the basket than a forward or center.

(cricket) The position on the popping crease where a batsman makes a mark to align himself with the wicket; see take guard .

(American football) Either of two offensive positions between the center and each of the offensive tackles, whose main responsibilities are to protect the quarterback, and open up "holes" through which offensive players can run.

(sports) A player playing a position named guard.

(rail) An employee, normally travelling in the last vehicle of a train, responsible for the safety of the train.

(computing, programming) A Boolean expression that must evaluate to true for a branch of program execution to continue.