Soldier vs Warrior - What's the difference?
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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,
*: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.
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.)
A person who is actively engaged in battle, conflict or warfare; a soldier or combatant.
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(lb) A person who is aggressively, courageously, or energetically involved in an activity, such as athletics.
As nouns the difference between soldier and warrior
is that soldier is a member of an army, of any rank while warrior is a person who is actively engaged in battle, conflict or warfare; a soldier or combatant.As a verb soldier
is to continue.As a proper noun Soldier
is a city in Iowa.soldier
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Alternative forms
* soldior (obsolete) * soldiour (obsolete) * souldier (obsolete) * souldior (obsolete) * souldiour (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)London 2012: rowers Glover and Stanning win Team GB's first gold medal
Synonyms
* (member of an army) grunt, sweat, old sweat, TommyVerb
(en verb)Derived terms
* soldierlySee also
* soldier on * toy soldier, plastic soldier * soldier ant, soldier bee * soldier of fortune * construction soldierAnagrams
*warrior
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Alternative forms
* warriour (obsolete)Noun
(en noun) (wikipedia warrior)- Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out.. Ikey the blacksmith had forged us a spearhead after a sketch from a picture of a Greek warrior ; and a rake-handle served as a shaft.