serviceman

noun

ser·​vice·​man ˈsər-vəs-ˌman How to pronounce serviceman (audio)
-mən
1
: a male member of the armed forces
2
: a man employed to repair or maintain equipment
3
: a gas station attendant

Examples of serviceman in a Sentence

wishing our servicemen overseas the best of luck
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Thousands of books and films have been made over the past 80 years celebrating the bravery of American servicemen during World War II. Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 July 2025 Ukrainian blogger and serviceman Stanislav Buniatov, who goes by the call sign Osman, wrote that the advances bring Moscow’s forces further into the Dnipropetrovsk region, an area not originally part of Putin’s territorial goals. Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 17 July 2025 He and thousands of American and Filipino servicemen were subjected to a 65-mile slog now known as the Bataan Death March and then held in the Cabanatuan POW camp, where, according to prison camp and other historical records, Kramer died on June 29, 1942. Frank Witsil, Freep.com, 15 July 2025 Her father, a U.S. serviceman in Japan in the early 1950s, had fallen in love. Maria Morava, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for serviceman

Word History

First Known Use

1899, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of serviceman was in 1899

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“Serviceman.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/serviceman. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.

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serviceman

noun
ser·​vice·​man ˈsər-və-ˌsman How to pronounce serviceman (audio)
-smən
: a member of the armed forces

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