Synonyms of soldiers

soldiers

noun

plural of soldier

as in warriors

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

• warriors
• fighters
• marines
• servicemen
• veterans
• troopers
• raiders
• legionaries
• dragoons
• rangers
• recruits
• legionnaires
• knights
• dogfaces
• Confederates
• men-at-arms
• partisans
• musketeers
• regulars
• infantrymen
• conscripts
• cavalrymen
• combatants
• servicewomen
• riflemen
• guardsmen
• guerrillas
• artillerymen
• doughboys
• militiamen
• foot soldiers
• cannoneers
• cavaliers
• GIs
• archers
• commandos
• cuirassiers
• footmen
• noncombatants
• gunners
• reservists
• paramilitaries
• lancers
• pikemen
• Continentals
• crossbowmen
• grunts
• spearmen
• carabineers
• minutemen
• irregulars
• jarheads
• draftees
• Federals
• champions
• gendarmes
• enrollees
• warhorses
• mortarmen
• diggers
• lifers
• counterguerrillas
• gallowglasses

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• civilians

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of soldiers

Two soldiers were also killed in an attack near the White House last year. — Steven Beynon, ABC News, 11 Aug. 2026

Police, soldiers and volunteers have been combing through wreckage. — Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 11 Aug. 2026

The soldiers sent back an empty tank shell and a video thanking him. — Isabelle Chapman, CNN Money, 10 Aug. 2026

To date, more than nine thousand Ukrainian soldiers have been released in nearly eighty separate exchanges. — Joshua Yaffa, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2026

Fort Bragg is about a 70-mile drive southwest from downtown Raleigh and is home to 48,775 active-duty soldiers. — Mark Price, Charlotte Observer, 10 Aug. 2026

American soldiers fighting in the Mediterranean theater were sent there on leave during WWII. — Elise Taylor, Vanity Fair, 4 Aug. 2026

Wakanda Forever thus became a story about mourning — but piling so many fictional deaths (ranging from nameless soldiers and civilians to the queen of Wakanda herself) on top of the real one becomes emotionally hard to take after a certain point. — Ew Staff, Entertainment Weekly, 3 Aug. 2026

Former child soldiers describe being abducted by Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces, shackled and ordered to fire on warplanes and civilians, under threat of beatings or death. — Sam Mednick, Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2026