Troops vs Soldier - What's the difference?
troops | soldier |
military personnel in uniform
(troop)
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.)
As nouns the difference between troops and soldier
is that troops is plural of lang=en while soldier is a member of an army, of any rank.As verbs the difference between troops and soldier
is that troops is third-person singular of troop while soldier is to continue.As a proper noun Soldier is
a city in Iowa.troops
English
Noun
(head)- There are 10,000 troops in Iraq.
Synonyms
* soldiersVerb
(head)Statistics
*soldier
English
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