Synonyms of soldier

soldier

noun

ˈsōl-jər 

as in warrior

a person engaged in military service

one of the goals of war is to keep as many soldiers as possible from being killed

Synonyms & Similar Words

• warrior
• fighter
• marine
• serviceman
• trooper
• veteran
• raider
• dragoon
• legionary
• ranger
• legionnaire
• knight
• recruit
• Confederate
• man-at-arms
• dogface
• infantryman
• cavalryman
• musketeer
• partisan
• combatant
• conscript
• regular
• rifleman
• artilleryman
• guardsman
• doughboy
• servicewoman
• cannoneer
• militiaman
• guerrilla
• commando
• foot soldier
• cavalier
• Continental
• GI
• archer
• gunner
• footman
• paramilitary
• grunt
• reservist
• Federal
• cuirassier
• lancer
• spearman
• irregular
• jarhead
• champion
• mortarman
• draftee
• pikeman
• crossbowman
• carabineer
• warhorse
• enrollee
• counterguerrilla
• noncombatant
• gendarme
• minuteman
• digger
• lifer
• gallowglass

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• civilian

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of soldier

But Onslaught doesn’t interrogate or even look at the military industrial complex with much interest beyond the notion that its fictional super soldiers were created to be unleashed upon civilian populaces. — Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 4 Sep. 2026

Last year, an explosive device there killed eight soldiers in one of the deadliest such incidents in Mexico. — María Verza, Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2026

War is declared by the end of the finale, but one soldier is gone. — Hunter Ingram, Variety, 4 Sep. 2026

Getting soldiers from Point A to Point B has been a perennial problem ever since Odysseus had to figure out how to get a squad of Greeks from one side of the walls of Troy to the other. — New Atlas, 4 Sep. 2026

Phrases Containing soldier

• foot soldier