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soldier I. substantiv

1. soldat, ostaş, oştean (şi fig.);

foot soldier infanterist;

private soldier soldat simplu;

(fam.) to go for a soldier a intra în armată;

a great soldier un ostaş renumit;

soldier of fortune soldat / militar de ocazie sau mercenar;

old soldier a) om cu experienţă;

to come the old soldier over a comanda (cuiva), a face pe grozavul faţă de; b) scrumbie afumată; c) (sl.) sticlă goală; d) (sl.) muc de ţigară, chiştoc.

2. (constr.) montant.

soldier II. verb A. intranzitiv

1. (mai ales to go soldiering) a face serviciul militar, a pleca la cătănie.

2. (mar. sl.) a chiuli (de la serviciu).

soldier II. verb B. tranzitiv

a curăţa (echipamentul).

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

And the king asked the soldier which of them he would choose for his wife; and he answered, “I am not very young, so I will have the eldest.”

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

Go for a soldier, do you mean? returned my aunt, alarmed; or go to sea?

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

Oh, he will see you, said the soldier who had taken her message to the Wizard, although he does not like to have people ask to see him.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, de L. Frank Baum)

Yet even in that age it was thought that, though a lady might have a soldier's heart, it was scarce as well that she should have a soldier's face.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Nothing except that he is an old soldier.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Already has his sickness gone from him, and he sits by the fire and waits for the coming of the white soldier men.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, de Jack London)

Soldiers and sailors are always acceptable in society.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

Oho! she answered, who gives anything to a run-away soldier?

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

"This little girl," said the Scarecrow to the soldier, "wishes to cross the desert. How can she do so?"

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, de L. Frank Baum)

Why so keen, then, to be soldiers?