WARRIOR Synonyms: 68 Similar and Opposite Words

warrior

noun

ˈwȯr-yər

Definition of warrior

as in soldier

a person engaged in military service a program of tough training and discipline that turns untried civilians into warriors

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civilian

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of warrior On June 21, Langlade and more than two hundred Ojibwe and Odawa soldiers attacked while most of the Miami warriors were away at their summer hunting camps and the women were working in the fields outside the walls. — J. B. MacKinnon, Harpers Magazine, 29 Sep. 2026 Donskoy is not the first warrior saint Russia has invoked during its war in Ukraine. — Cnn Staff, CNN Money, 26 Sep. 2026 This was about a hundred uniformed men and a few uniformed women, trained to be stoic warriors. — Mabel Yiu, Forbes.com, 25 Sep. 2026 Here the focus was not nationalism but a spiritual discipline that supposedly allowed warriors to accept death with equanimity. — Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 22 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for warrior

Recent Examples of Synonyms for warrior

Noun

By transporting supplies, supporting reconnaissance activities, and assisting with casualty evacuation, unmanned ground vehicles can potentially reduce soldiers’ physical workload while extending their operational reach.

— Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 10 Oct. 2026
One priority for Army planners is protecting the identities of soldiers selected to carry out the execution, one official described.

— ABC News, ABC News, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of soldier

Noun

Earlier this week, Yemen's military said its forces had uprooted Houthi fighters from the areas around the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, a Red Sea shipping chokepoint, and the port city of Mocha.

— Frank Andrews, CBS News, 7 Oct. 2026
That month, around 20 Russian drones entered Polish airspace, and three Russian fighter jets crossed into Estonian airspace before being shot down and chased out, respectively, by NATO forces.

— Julianne Smith, Foreign Affairs, 7 Oct. 2026