different between soldier vs redcoat

English

Alternative forms

• soldior, soldiour, souldier, souldior, souldiour, (all obsolete), soljer

Etymology

From Middle English soudeour, borrowed from Old French soudier or soudeour (“mercenary”), from Medieval Latin soldarius (“soldier (one having pay)”), from Late Latin solidus, a type of coin. Displaced native Old English cempa.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: s?l?j?(r), s?l?j?(r), IPA^(key): /?s??ld???/, /?s?ld???/
• (General American) enPR: s?l?j?r, IPA^(key): /?so?ld???/
• Rhymes: -??ld???(?), -?ld???(?)

Noun

soldier (plural soldiers)

1. A member of an army, of any rank.
   • I am a soldier and unapt to weep.

   • 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, London 2012: rowers Glover and Stanning win Team GB's first gold medal

     Stanning, who was commissioned from Sandhurst in 2008 and has served in Aghanistan, is not the first soldier to bail out the organisers at these Games but will be among the most celebrated.

2. A private in military service, as distinguished from an officer.

   • It were meet that any one, before he came to be a captain, should have been a soldier.

3. A guardsman.
4. A member of the Salvation Army.
5. A low-ranking member of the mafia who engages in physical conflict.
6. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand) A piece of buttered bread (or toast), cut into a long thin strip for dipping into a soft-boiled egg.
7. A term of approbation for a young boy.
8. Someone who fights or toils well.
9. The red or cuckoo gurnard (Chelidonichthys cuculus).
10. One of the asexual polymorphic forms of termites, in which the head and jaws are very large and strong. The soldiers serve to defend the nest.
11. (slang, dated) A red herring (cured kipper with flesh turned red).

Synonyms

• (member of an army): grunt, sweat, old sweat, Tommy

Derived terms

• dead soldier
• soldierlike, soldierly
• water soldier (Stratiotes aloides)

Translations

Verb

soldier (third-person singular simple present soldiers, present participle soldiering, simple past and past participle soldiered)

1. (intransitive) To continue steadfast; to keep striving.
2. (intransitive) To serve as a soldier.
3. (intransitive) To intentionally restrict labor productivity; to work at the slowest rate that goes unpunished.
4. (transitive, slang) To take a ride on (another person's horse) without permission.

Usage notes

Originally from the way that conscripts may approach following orders. Usage less prevalent in the era of all-volunteer militaries.

Synonyms

• (work at slowest rate): dog it, goldbrick

Derived terms

• soldierly

Translations

See also

• soldier on
• toy soldier, plastic soldier
• soldier ant, soldier bee
• soldier of fortune
• construction soldier

Further reading

• soldier on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Soldier (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• soldier on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• soldier on Wikiquote.Wikiquote

Anagrams

• Delrios, serolid, solider

English

Alternative forms

• red coat

Etymology

Bahuvrihi compound of red +? coat

Pronunciation

Noun

redcoat (plural redcoats)

1. A British soldier, especially during the American Revolution.
   • 1896, A. E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad:

     The street sounds to the soldiers’ tread, / And out we troop to see: / A single redcoat turns his head, / He turns and looks at me.

   • 1906, Alfred Noyes, The Highwayman:

     He did not come in the dawning; he did not come at noon;

     And out o' the tawny sunset, before the rise o' the moon,

     When the road was a gypsy's ribbon, looping the purple moor,

     A red-coat troop came marching—

     Marching—marching—

     King George's men came marching, up to the old inn-door.

2. A member of the entertainment staff at Butlin's holiday camps in the United Kingdom, who wear red blazers.

   • Mirror News 16 May 13. The series ran from 1980 until 1988, and won a BAFTA for Best Comedy Series in 1984. It was based on Perry’s experiences working as a Redcoat in Butlins.

3. (slang) A fox.
   • 1947, Pennsylvania Game News (volumes 18-19, page 30)

     Hurriedly he made his way around one end of the pond to the spot where he had first sighted the redcoat.

Usage notes

The soldier and entertainment staff uses are sometimes capitalised.

Synonyms

• (British soldier) lobsterback

Anagrams

• Art Deco, cordate