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Soldier vs Sowar - What's the difference?

soldier | sowar |

As a proper noun soldier

is a city in iowa.

As a noun sowar is

(historical|india) a soldier on horseback, specially one during the.

soldier

English

Alternative forms

* soldior (obsolete) * soldiour (obsolete) * souldier (obsolete) * souldior (obsolete) * souldiour (obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A member of an army, of any rank.
  • *(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
  • *:I am a soldier and unapt to weep.
  • *
  • *: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.

    • Synonyms

    * (member of an army) grunt, sweat, old sweat, Tommy

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To continue.
  • To be a soldier.
  • To intentionally restrict labor productivity; to work at the slowest rate that goes unpunished. Has also been called dogging it'' or ''goldbricking . (Originally from the way that conscripts may approach following orders. Usage less prevalent in the era of all-volunteer militaries.)

    • Derived terms

    * soldierly

    See also

    * soldier on * toy soldier, plastic soldier * soldier ant, soldier bee * soldier of fortune * construction soldier

    Anagrams

    *

    External links

    * (wikipedia "soldier") * * (commonslite) * (quotelite)

    sowar

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (historical, India) A soldier on horseback, specially one during the .
  • *{{quote-book, year=1897, author=Frederick Sleigh Roberts, title=Forty-one years in India, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Among the latter was Hope Grant, who had his horse shot under him in a charge, and was saved by the devotion of two men of his own regiment (the 9th Lancers) and a Mahomedan sowar of the 4th Irregular Cavalry. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1910, author=Charles John Griffiths, title=A Narrative Of The Siege Of Delhi, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Hills was struck down badly wounded, and was on the point of being despatched by a sowar', when Major Tombs, hearing the noise, rushed out of his tent, and seeing the plight his subaltern was in, fired his revolver at thirty yards and killed the ' sowar . }}